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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA : evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlásny, Vladimír; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

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Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic : an analysis of 8 large Latin American cities

Aromí, J. Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julian; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-28

This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for 8 large Latin American cities. Indicators of mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining geo-referenced mobile phone information with granular census data. Before the pandemic, a strong positive...

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Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic : an analysis of eight large Latin American cities

Aromí, J. Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julian; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2021

This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for eight large Latin American cities. Indicators of mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining georeferenced mobile phone information with granular census data. Before the pandemic, a strong positive...

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Dynamics of social mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Yuksel, Mutlu; Aydedem, Yigit; Begolli, Francisko - 2020

As the number of cases increases globally, governments and authorities have continued to use mobility restrictions that were, and still are, the only effective tool to control for the viral transmission. Yet, the relationship between public orders and behavioral parameters of social distancing...

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Inherited social capital and residential mobility : a study using Japan panel data

Yamamuraa, Eiji; Tsusuib, Yoshiro; Yamanec, Chisako; … - 2014

Empirical results based on individual-level data from Japan were studied to determine the effect of social capital on the willingness to leave one's residential area. It was found that social capital accumulated through one's own experience in a residential area is not the only factor that...

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The effects of mobility on neighbourhood social ties

Knies, Gundi - 2009

This research examines the strength of people's ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel...

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Multigenerational mobility in India

Kundu, Anustup; Sen, Kunal - 2021

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility-that is, status transmission across three generations. We examine multigenerational educational and occupational mobility in India, using a nationally...

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Multigenerational mobility in India

Kundu, Anustup; Sen, Kunal - 2021

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility that is, status transmission across three generations. We examine multigenerational educational and occupational mobility in India, using a nationally...

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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Clark, Gregory - 2020

In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...

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Income increase and moving to a better neighbourhood : an enquiry into ethnic differences in Finland

Vaalavuo, Maria; Ham, Maarten van; Kauppinen, Timo M. - 2017

of residence. Based on multinomial logit modelling of migration outcomes, we found that an increase in income is …

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