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Rural–Urban Migration in Indonesia: Survey Design and Implementation

Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Yamauchi, Chikako; Effendi, Tadjuddin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …

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The Job Search and Investments of Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Connolly, Marie D.; Worswick, … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967987

Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview

Hatton, Timothy J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I …

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Was the African American great migration delayed by outlawing emigrant agents?

Prentice, Kha Yen; Konya, Laszlo; Prentice, David - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2013

the first estimates of the quantitative significance of these agents to African American migration. Specifically, we take … migration out of the two states, we find that the emigrant agent laws had no direct effect on migration. Though there is some … limited evidence that the sensitivity of migration flows to economic differences within the South was lower if an emigrant …

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The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Australia: the impact of unobserved heterogeneity

Salehin, Mosfequs; Breunig, Robert - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079136

Materialism on the March: From Conspicuous Leisure to Conspicuous Consumption?

Frijters, Paul; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

This paper inserts Veblen’s (1898) concepts of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption into a very simple model. Individuals have the choice to either invest their time into working, leading to easily observable levels of consumption, or into conspicuous leisure, whose effect on...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labour Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, not just as Individuals

Hatton, Timothy J.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals assimilating in a largely anonymous labour market, a view that runs counter to the spirit of the equally...

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Do Selection Criteria Make a Difference? Visa Category and the Labour Force Status of Australian Immigrants.

Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

after migration? To what extent does this represent a head start as opposed to long-term labour market advantage …

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A Comparative Static Model of the Relationship Between Immigration and the Job Prospects of Unemployed Residents.

Chapman, B.; Cobb-Clark, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

Much of the debate surrounding the impact of immigration of the economy relates to the consequences of immigration for aggregate unemployment. In this paper we explore a related but more specific issue: the consequences of immigration on the probability of unemployed residents gaining a job....

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