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Welfare magnets and internal migration in China

Jin, Zhangfeng - 2020

This study examines the causal effects ofwelfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimentalmigration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, Ishowthat improvedwelfarebenefitssubstantially increasemigration....

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The health impacts of relaxing internal migration policies : quasi-experimental evidence from China

Wu, Fengyu; Wang, Julia Shu-Huah; You, Jing; Teitler, Julien - 2025

This study examines the health impacts of a large-scale internal migration reform in China. Using nationally representative data from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (2012-2018) and a unique dataset on city-level policy intensity and adoption timing, we employ a triple-difference approach...

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Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2021

between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …

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Labour mobility and interprovincial trade in Canada

Aziz, Nusrate; Mahar, Gerry - 2019

This study estimates the impact of interprovincial and international migration on interprovincial trade using annual data from 1981- 2016 for Canadian provinces. We apply both the gravity and the spatial trade models for estimation using a number of panel estimators. We find that the endogeneity...

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Migration and Canadian interprovincial trade

Aziz, Nusrate; Aziz, Ahmed; Mahar, Gerry - 2022

This study estimates international and interprovincial migrants' impact on interprovincial trade using panel data from 1981- 2016 for Canadian provinces. Estimated results show that migration plays a significant role in determining Canadian interprovincial trade. Although the stock of...

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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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It's the way people move! : labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia

Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020

This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states and regions of Russia. In contrast to previous studies, we use variations in the population of a region as a proxy of its net migration rate and apply spatial econometric...

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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households

Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018

We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...

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