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In this paper I use county to county migration data to estimate the effect of labour market conditions on these flows. A gravity model is estimated on Hungarian NUTS 2 regions for the period between 1994 and 2002. Such results are not available for Hungary so far. Estimated parameters show...
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) motivation (financial and non-financial incentives), (2) geographical location (rural and urban), and (3) regulation (obstacles … rural or urban geographical location? (2) Are urban GPs more satisfied with the incentives of their current geographical …-financial incentives of their current urban or rural geographical location as a function of their demographic characteristics. More …
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Introduction: Migration has contributed to the economic empowerment of women in West Africa. Empowerment can be accepted as a way to open up entrepreneurial opportunities that could contradict the established gender norm. Thus, in some cases migration can be part of an economic empowering...
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The proper operationalization of urban and rural is extremely important to our understanding of the impacts of specific … operational approaches to identifying urban and rural communities in that it allows for the examination of both without the … substantively holds meaning in conceptualizing rural and urban ecological context. …
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and both have great disparities in terms of sanitation access, particularly in rural-urban terms. Sanitation development …
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increasing income inequality, mostly between rural and urban areas but also within both rural and urban areas and across regions …
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The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have also found that the higher is income inequality...
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. Differences in broadband access explain three-fourths of the gap in telecommuting between urban and rural markets. Telecommuters … broadband access improves in rural markets, the urban-rural gap in telecommuting will diminish. The urban-rural pay gap will … also decrease if improved broadband access induces some already highly paid urban workers to move to rural areas. …
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For the first 13 years after entry, the hazard rate for firm exits is persistently higher for urban than rural firms …. While differences in observed industry market, local market and firm attributes explain some of the rural-urban gap in firm … survival, rural firms retain a survival advantage 25% greater than observationally equivalent urban firms. In competitive …
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urban sub-provincial areas. The mid is composed offive dimensions (Macroeconomic Climate, Research and Innovation, Human …
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