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Do foreigners replace native immigrants? : evidence from a panel cointegration analysis
Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - 2009
the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is … characterized by market differences in earnings between the North and the South. Based on a panel cointegration approach we exploit … understate the actual immigration impact. -- International migration ; domestic migration ; labour markets ; panel cointegration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900443
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Household migration and child educational attainment : the case of Uganda
Ferrone, Lucia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2015
affects child primary education and in what direction. Using the Uganda National Panel Survey for 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498497
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Identification and estimation of economic models of outmigration using panel attrition
Bellemare, Charles (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001978106
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The gravity model of migration : the successful comeback of an ageing superstar in regional science
Poot, Jacques; Alimi, Omoniyi; Cameron, Michael; Maré, … - 2016
For at least half a century, and building on observations first made a century earlier, the gravity model has been the most commonly‐used paradigm for understanding gross migration flows between regions. This model owes its success to, firstly, its intuitive consistency with migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580582
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Self-employment and migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019
why the self-employed may in fact be more likely to migrate. We put together panel surveys from eight countries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118294
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Are ghettos good or bad? : evidence from US internal migration
Zhang, Junfu; Liang, Zheng - 2014
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice model that allows for estimating the overall effects of racial segregation. The key idea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341251
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Cultural biases in migration : estimating non-monetary migration costs
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2015
cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498534
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Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2020
BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVES: This paper analyzes the socioeconomic...
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Strong versus weak ties in migration
Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2014
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340194
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Aging and migration in a transition economy : the case of China
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Shen, Kailing - 2014
Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the idea that older migrants have shorter durations in the destination but possibly larger general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387785