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The regulation of migration in a transition economy: China's Hukou system

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2009

Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …

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The effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets: Evidence from Uganda

Strobl, Eric; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012

Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Our results reveal a significant negative impact. Consistent with...

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...

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Do foreigners replace native immigrants? Evidence from a panel cointegration analysis

Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - 2009

This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic labour mobility equilibrates economic conditions across cities and...

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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy...

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Interprovincial migration in China: the effects of investment and migrant networks

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2007

Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …

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Migration, self-selection, and income distributions: Evidence from rural and urban China

Xing, Chunbing - 2010

As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...

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The impact of college graduation on geographic mobility: identifying education using multiple components of Vietnam draft risk

Malamud, Ofer; Wozniak, Abigail - 2008

College-educated workers are twice as likely as high school graduates to make lasting long-distance moves, but little is known about the role of college itself in determining geographic mobility. Unobservable characteristics related to selection into college might also drive the relationship...

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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

IV estimation methods yield smaller coefficients of net migration in growth regressions, while the opposite holds for …

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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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