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Inequality and Internal Migration in China : Evidence from Village Panel Data

Zhang, Junsen - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on income inequality and gender wage gap in source regions … income inequality is time-persisting, we use a system GMM framework to control for the lagged income inequality, in which … inequality in the sending communities. Specifically, contemporary emigration increases income inequality, while lagged emigration …

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Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities – Results from a Panel VAR

Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - 2009

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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Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities – Results from a Panel VAR

Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

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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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative dataset that includes information on almost every Italian citizen living abroad. Since Italy takes a middle ground in terms of redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from...

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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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The dynamic effect of rural-to-urban migration on inequality in source villages : system GMM estimates from rural China

Ha, Wei; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye; Zhang, Junsen - In: China economic review : an international journal 37 (2016), pp. 27-39

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City of God redux : inequality, migration, and violent crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000

Freire, Tiago - 2015

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some … inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement error in inequality by using the relationship between migration and … inequality. Using rainfall shocks and changes in transport costs as exogenous sources of out-migration from rural areas in Brazil …

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The role of China's household registration system in the urban-rural income differential

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest; Moon, Soojae - 2017

curbing rising income inequality. …

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Decomposing the contribution of migration to poverty reduction : methodology and application to Tanzania

Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Kanbur, Ravi - 2018

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration...

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Strong versus weak ties in migration

Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2014

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...

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