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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain

Andrews, Martyn J. - 2007

Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...

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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2022

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … entails a decrease in inequality that ranges between -1.5% (for the Gini index) and -4.5% (for the interquartile ratio …).This is essentially driven by a reduction in inequality between countries, while the effect of migration on within …

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Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan

Chen, Joyce J. - 2017

inequality by shifting production – rather than workers – across space …

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Media Exposure and Internal Migration : Evidence from Indonesia

Farré, Lidia - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal...

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Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado - 2014

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China

Park, Albert - 2014

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … measures of urban income inequality. Significant differences between migrants and local residents are found for non …

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Environmental Disasters and Migration

Mbaye, Linguère - 2015

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...

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Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment : The Case of Uganda

Ferrone, Lucia - 2015

In many Sub-Saharan African countries, a large number of people migrate internally or abroad because of demographic, economic and political factors. This pronounced mobility is likely to have consequences for child education, which is still a matter of concern in the region. We study this issue...

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China's Lesser Known Migrants

Deng, Quheng - 2006

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately 20 percent of all urban residents. Receiving a long...

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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty

Facchini, Giovanni - 2018

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...

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