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Moving on up for high school graduates in Russia : the consequences of the unified state exam reform

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Francesconi, Marco; Jurko, Anna V. - 2017

In 2009, Russia introduced a reform that changed the admissions process in all universities. Before 2009, admission decisions were based on institution-specific entry exams; the reform required universities to determine their decisions on the results of a national high-school test known as...

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Explaining spatial patterns of foreign employment in Germany

Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2017

This paper investigates the main determinants of the regional representation of foreign employees in Germany. Since migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only for total foreign employment but also for the 35...

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Age, intentions and the implicit role of out-selection factors of international migration

Beine, Michel - 2020

In this paper, I propose to isolate the role of age as a self-selection factor of international migration. The role of age is estimated on intended emigration rather than on observed outcomes of migration, using individual measures of intended emigration drawn from a large-scale survey conducted...

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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis

Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...

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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico

Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...

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The isolated states of America : home state bias and the impact of state borders on mobility

Wilson, Riley - 2023

I document a new fact about mobility within the United States. County-to-county migration and commuting drop discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to an equally-distant county across state lines. Standard...

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The cost of migrating to a culturally different location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...

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Spatial and social mobility

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2015 - This version: December 14, 2015

income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …, whereas regional income inequality also depends on the magnitude of the productivity gap of low-skilled relative to high …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative …

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Taxation and mobility : evidence from tax decentralization in Italy

Rubolino, Enrico; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2023

We study the impact of taxation on the location choices of individuals and tax bases in Italy. We exploit some recent tax decentralization reforms, which granted regions and municipalities greater power in setting income tax rates across brackets. Combining granular micro-level data on tax...

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