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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 … uncertainty experience an 18 percent increase in their internal in-migration rate - this result is driven by migrants who are "non-hukou …

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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 … uncertainty experience an 18 percent increase in their internal in-migration rate – this result is driven by migrants who are "non-hukou …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929088

The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy : The Case of China

Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2010

. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there …China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …

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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...

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Declining Migration within the US : The Role of the Labor Market

Molloy, Raven S. - 2013

We examine explanations for the secular decline in interstate migration since the 1980s. After showing that demographic and socioeconomic factors can account for little of this decrease, we present evidence suggesting that it is related to a downward trend in labor market transitions -- i.e. a...

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Declining Migration within the US : The Role of the Labor Market

Molloy, Raven S. - 2014

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Returns to regional migration : causal effect or selection on wage growth?

Kratz, Fabian; Brüderl, Josef - 2012

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2021

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IAB employment sample, we find however...

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Determinants of Internal Migration in Kazakhstan

Dietz, Barbara - 2011

In this paper we analyze the determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008–2010. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on interregional population flows in Central Asia. We find that migration is determined...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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