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Internal migration flows in Kazakhstan are of high social and political relevance but political and public attention … survey on migration and remittances in Kazakhstan which was conducted in four cities (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda and Pavlodar … respondents, illustrates migration experiences on the individual and the household level and compares migrants and non …
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This study compares the welfare gains to households in Kerala, India from two types of labor migration: moving overseas …
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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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migration, since the desire to migrate declines later in the life cycle. In addition, indirect labor demand effects may also … reduce migration. However, migration of the elderly, return retirement migration, as well as mobility of certain specialist …
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Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …
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Most prime-age married couples in the U.S. today have two labor force participants. Migration decisions are more … great enough to offset any loss to the other spouse. This paper estimates the extent to which internal migration is … depressed by rising earnings equality among spouses. The results indicate that couples' migration propensities are substantially …
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Migration is a phenomenon of increasing global relevance as year by year a growing number of individuals is leaving … of international migration and its effect on the left-behind households have been well researched, less focus has been … put on the effects of internal, rural-urban migration (and its concomitant remittances). This paper analyses the net …
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Internal migration flows in Kazakhstan are of high social and political relevance but political and public attention … survey on migration and remittances in Kazakhstan which was conducted in four cities (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda and Pavlodar … respondents, illustrates migration experiences on the individual and the household level and compares migrants and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175454
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...
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