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Regional migration and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2018

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … entails a decrease in inequality that ranges between -1.5% (for the Gini index) and -4.5% (for the interquartile ratio). This … is essentially driven by a reduction in inequality between countries, while the effect of migration on within …

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Self-employment and migration

Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019

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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Interprovincial Migration and Human Capital Formation in China

Suzuki, Yui; Suzuki, Yukari - 2010

This study examines how rising interprovincial migration with diverse education backgrounds affects new human capital formation in China in the 1990s. Consistently with a simple model of migration-oriented investment and disinvestment in higher education, we identify that gross outflow migration...

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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2022

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … entails a decrease in inequality that ranges between -1.5% (for the Gini index) and -4.5% (for the interquartile ratio …).This is essentially driven by a reduction in inequality between countries, while the effect of migration on within …

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Redistributive policies and migrants' labor market choices

Mitterbacher, Kerstin; Palan, Stefan; Fleiß, Jürgen - 2022

Migration in its various forms, such as economic migration, is a central issue in contemporary research and politics. Our paper provides insights into the behavior of societies faced with the possibility of migratory inflow into their respective social security and welfare systems. In...

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Let's be selective about migrant self-selection

Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - 2013

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...

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Who is an internal migrant?

Sharma, Rasadhika; Grote, Ulrike - 2019

There is no internationally accepted definition of an internal migrant. Different surveys and academic papers use varied definitions that are open to subjectivity. Our paper stresses this issue and tests the sensitivity of results obtained by econometric analysis to the use of different defining...

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Modelling migration and regional labour markets : an application of the new economic geography model RHOMOLOI

Brandsma, Andries; Kancs, D'Artis; Persyn, Damiaan - 2013

The present paper describes the modelling of regional labour markets in the newly developed dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO, where the labour market equilibrium is determined by firms' labour demand, a wage-curve determining unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The...

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Explaining spatial patterns of foreign employment in Germany

Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2017

This paper investigates the main determinants of the regional representation of foreign employees in Germany. Since migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only for total foreign employment but also for the 35...

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The impact of risk and mobility in dualistic models : migration under random shocks

Martins, Ana Paula - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 20 (2015) 38, pp. 2-20

In this paper we present and confront the expected outcome of an increase in risk on the regional or sectoral allocation of labor force and employment. The basic frameworks are the benchmark dualistic scenarios. A single-input analysis of a homogeneous product economy is provided. Uncertainty is...

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