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WHY DO MIGRANTS DO BETTER THAN NON-MIGRANTS AT DESTINATION? MIGRATION, CLASS AND INEQUALITY DYNAMICS IN INDIA
VAKULABHARANAM, VAMSI; THAKURATA, SASWATA GUHA - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 01, pp. 1450003-1
locally residing population. We explain this by the relatively high elite presence among migrants, dualism of Indian migration … (between long-term and circular ones), but mainly by the differences in the levels of education. In India, migration has taken …
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Human capital sorting: The "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions
Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017
Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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Exit, voice and political change: Evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States
Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2018
We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917113
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Human capital sorting : the "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions
Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017
Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621227
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Exit, voice and political change : evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States
Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2018
We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911152
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The mobility challenge for growth and integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128229
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Circular migration : why resticting labor mobility can be counterproductive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
, creating a "brain drain" in the sending country. In reality, migration is typically temporary: Workers migrate, find employment … circular migration can be costly to both sending and receiving countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412353
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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014
The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source...
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Social cohesion and labor mobility
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129965
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Population aging, migration spillovers, and the decline in interstate migration
Karahan, Fatih; Rhee, Serena - 2014
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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