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Secondary education and international labor mobility : evidence from the natural experiment in the Philippines

Sakai, Yoko; Masuda, Kazuya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-22

International labor mobility is a key factor for a well-functioning labor market. Although educational attainment is known to affect regional labor mobility within a country, evidence of a relationship between schooling and international labor mobility is limited, particularly in developing...

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Spatial wage gaps and frictional labor markets

Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - 2019

quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …

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Exit, voice and political change : evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States

Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2018

We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...

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Human capital sorting : the "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017

Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...

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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) - 2012

have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …

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The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …

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Migration strategies of the crisis-stricken youth in an enlarged European Union

Fabo, Brian; Kahanec, Martin - Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) - 2013

This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged … duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories … are also overrepresented among people with only temporary as opposed to long-term or permanent migration plans. Whereas …

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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279252

Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity

Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2012

it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen under present …

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WHY DO MIGRANTS DO BETTER THAN NON-MIGRANTS AT DESTINATION? MIGRATION, CLASS AND INEQUALITY DYNAMICS IN INDIA

VAKULABHARANAM, VAMSI; THAKURATA, SASWATA GUHA - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 01, pp. 1450003-1

locally residing population. We explain this by the relatively high elite presence among migrants, dualism of Indian migration … (between long-term and circular ones), but mainly by the differences in the levels of education. In India, migration has taken …

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