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Migration and climate change in rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....

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Local education spending and migration : evidence from a large redistribution program

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2024

This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and … redistributed public education finance across Brazilian municipalities in the late 1990s, as a source of exogenous variation. Using … a cohort-exposure design, I find that, at the individual level, doubling the program-related public education budget led …

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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

find no effect on the wage distribution between workers of different education levels. -- Emigration ; EU Enlargement …

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Adapting to climate change : long-term effects of drought on local labor markets

Bastos, Paulo; Busso, Matias; Miller, Sebastián - 2013

We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in conjunction with five waves of population census data...

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Managing migration through quotas : an option-theory perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2008

Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), also by using immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of...

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Attitudes towards migrants during crisis times

Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021

How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to...

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Of cities and slums

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016

development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, we construct a simple …

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A comparative analysis of the social situation between carbon-intensive and noncarbon-intensive regions

Tamilina, Larysa; Römisch, Roman - 2023

beds, access to preschool education, and the prevalence of severe material deprivation. We demonstrate that compared to …

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Migration drivers in carbonintensive regions in the EU

Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2023

The paper analyses drivers of migration in carbon-intensive and non-carbon-intensive regions in the EU. Using a mix of econometric methods, such as spatial panel and spatial cross-sectional methods, as well as geographically weighted regressions on data for EU NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 regions, the...

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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

Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...

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