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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 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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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2022

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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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

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Internal migration and labor market adjustments in the presence of non-wage compensation

Corbi, Raphael Bottura; Ferraz, Tiago; Narita, Renata - 2024

In this paper, we argue that adjustments in non-wage compensation are empirically relevant and have important implications for understanding the effects of labor supply shocks. We examine the labor market impacts of internal migration in Brazil through a shift-share approach, which combines...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : what drives the self-selection of internal migrants in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011 - Preliminary Version: March 3, 2011

hypothesizes that regions with a low employment inequality attract more unskilled workers compared to regions with unequal …, we find evidence in favor of this hypothesis. While rising employment inequality in a region raises the average skill … level of an in-migrant, higher pay inequality in a region does not have a significant impact on the average skill level of …

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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The winner takes it all : internal migration, education and wages in Ethiopia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina - 2015

Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household survey, this paper examines internal migration in...

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Inter- and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy

Lopez, Juan Carlos; Morita, Tadashi - In: Journal of regional science 63 (2023) 4, pp. 981-1000

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