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This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among German states between 1991-2006. We adopt a Panel VAR approach to identify the feedback effects among the variables and analyse the dynamic properties of the system through...
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We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … wealth inequality is shown to be monotonically reduced along the time-span, the short- and the long-run impacts on income … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may …
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We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … wealth inequality but may generate higher income inequality. Moreover, the short-run and long-run impacts of migration on …
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We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … wealth inequality but may generate higher income inequality. Moreover, the short-run and long-run impacts of migration on …
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means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed … lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower inequality. This paper shows both theoretically and empirically …-shaped relationship between emigration and inequality in rural sending communities in Mexico. After instrumenting, we find that the …
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inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …
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We estimate the effect of regional income inequality on emigration rates of Austrian municipalities using a unique data …
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This paper provides empirical results for internal migration and commuting flows using panel data for 89 economic regions in Norway for the years 2001-2014. The emphasis is on the potential effects of different incentive variables. We consider both in- and out-migration as well as in- and...
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While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
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There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
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