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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international …, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls … for mainstreaming migration in development with some origin countries making specific attempts at incorporating migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 2004
examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263228
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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007
industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of … innovation and their ability in fostering industrialization, the proposed theory suggests that the desirable degree of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318954
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011
new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284033
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The labor market consequences of internal migration in Turkey
Berker, Ali - 2010
migration that might have been sparked by such significant economic and social changes. Overall, the results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273686
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Male vs. female guest-worker migration: Does it matter for fertility in the source country?
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women work abroad during the same time period when they can bear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335987
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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870559
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The role of landscape amenities in regional development: A survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies
Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
functions. Using this definition we identify thirty-nine relevant studies that use either migration or regional economic models … or hedonic pricing techniques. One result from the analysis of migration and regional economic studies is that intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315587
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Mobility Where Mobility is Illegal: Migration and City Growth in the Soviet Union
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1998
his paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many … cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334273
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The Political Economy of Russian City Growth
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999
This paper examines the political economy of Russian city growth. For the 1980s, we model the growth of 168 Russian cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and specific state controls. Our goal is to understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334322