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China's "great migration" : the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni; Liu, Maggie Y.; Mayda, Anna Maria; … - 2018 - This draft: November 2017
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795090
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Adjustment in Local Labour and Housing Markets
Grimes, Arthur L.; Maré, David C.; Morten, Melanie - 2015
This paper analyses local labour and hosuing market adjustment in New Zealand from 1989 to 2006. We use a VAR approach to examine the adjustment of employment, employment rate, participation rate, wages, and house prices in response to employment shocks. Migration is a major adjustment response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224901
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Returns to Regional Migration : Causal Effect or Selection on Wage Growth?
Kratz, Fabian - 2012
Human capital theory predicts pecuniary returns to regional migration, but also positive self-selection of migrants. Therefore, when estimating the causal effect of migration one has to take care of potential self-selection. Several authors recommend using fixed effects models thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098884
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Returns to regional migration : causal effect or selection on wage growth?
Kratz, Fabian; Brüderl, Josef - 2012
Human capital theory predicts pecuniary returns to regional migration, but also positive self-selection of migrants. Therefore, when estimating the causal effect of migration one has to take care of potential self-selection. Several authors recommend using fixed effects models thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659947
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Gravity predictions of international migration flows
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; López Molina, Gonzalo - 2024
What is the future of international migration flows? The growing availability of bilateral international migration data has resulted in an improved understanding of the determinants of migration flows through the estimation of theory-based gravity models. However, the use of these models as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015163010
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Land rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China
Rupelle, Maëlys de la; Deng, Quheng; Li, Shi; … - 2009
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932224
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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742892
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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni - 2018
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929088
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Selective Migration and Economic Development : A Generalized Approach
Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration … migration costs, and the education policy. Emigration significantly reduces cross-country income inequality and the proportion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350135
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Size matters : measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocks
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Sun, Rui - 2020
Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404500