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their province of origin. Our findings suggest that the interaction between forced resettlement and migration has …
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This issue of Regional Science and Urban Economics is the special conference issue of the 3rd AFD-World Bank Migration …
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-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
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We model the behavior of rational forward-looking agents in a spatial economy. The economic geography structure is built on Fujita et al. (1999)'s racetrack economy. Workers choose optimally what to consume at each period, as well as which spatial itinerary to follow in the geographical space....
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same time, migration across states and among homeowners has fallen sharply. Using a logistic regression framework to … analyze data from the Internal Revenue Service on state-to-state migration between 2006 and 2009, we discover evidence that … national state-to-state migration rate by 0.05 percentage points, resulting in roughly 103,000 to 140,000 fewer individuals …
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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on local election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on city districts in Hamburg, Germany, during a period of substantial inflows of immigrants and asylum seekers. We find significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner...
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We use the 1999–2009 Panel Survey of Income Dynamics to estimate household move probabilities as a function of, among other things, current housing equity. The lock-in effect supposes that mobility decreases with the mortgage loan-to-value ratio, particularly as equity becomes negative. We...
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This paper analyzes international high-skilled migration caused by financial frictions in educational market. I develop … migration and the resultant accelerated brain drain increase the incentives of the country government to reduce financial …
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migration including negative selection of migrants to less dense areas and positive selection towards denser areas. Nonetheless … migration, even in the long-run, accounts for little of the skill differences between denser and less dense areas. Finally, we …
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This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield … power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision of how much human capital to … acquire depends, among other things, on the migration policies. The paper analyzes the endogenous formation of bilateral …
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