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between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long … regions, it retards the out-migration that is part of the market process, thereby slowing economic development and … the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the insurance system has altered internal migration …
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-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …
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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our …
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We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …’). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time (‘green growth’) the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …
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population growth through policy measures aimed at stimulating net in-migration when approaching important population thresholds …
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entire sample. Using the rate of urbanization as a proxy for internal migration we find strong evidence that natural …We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between … on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows for the period 1960-2000, the time …
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second country, from which a steady stream of greenhouse gases occur. If this migration imposes costs on the emitting country …, then migration induces a sort of pseudo carbon tax.via political economic forces. This pseudo tax creates an incentive for …), is smaller in the presence of migration. I discuss various comparative dynamics, for both the path of production and the …
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Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples …, and drops considerably after migration outside the Nordic countries. Pre-migration differences between couples … subsequently migrating to different destinations are small. Our survey reveals that couple migration is usually driven by the male …
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who might move away after graduation. This paper analyses how student migration affects governmental decisions regarding …
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In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can … be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or …
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