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Demographic determinants of regional development in Eastern Poland
Bugowski, Łukasz Karol - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 19 (2019) 2, pp. 163-183
Research Background: Demography affects human capital, which today is one of the most important factors of regional development. Demographic factors create possibilities or limit the expansion of the knowledge and skills and condition socio-economic activity. In other words, demography can...
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Wohnstandortmobilität im gesellschaftlichen und demographischen Wandel: Einführung
Zakrzewski, Philipp; Schmitz-Veltin, Ansgar - In: Schneller, öfter, weiter? Perspektiven der …, (pp. 72-78). 2011
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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009
account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by … the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest …
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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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How do strong social ties shape youth migration trajectories (using data from the Russian on-line social network www.vk.com)
Zamyatina, Nadezhda; Yashunsky, Alexey - 2013
migrations between cities shows us that the force of strong ties is sometimes greater than the force of a distance or of the … agglomeration effect: some very distant and small cities are tied closely by migrations flows. We tend to explain the high level of … migrations flows moved to the Russian capital and to the region centers. Yet, excluding such flows, we can see the concentration …
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Forming of the new ethnic image of St.Petersburg
Krasnov, Anton; Zhitin, Dmitriy - 2015
Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...
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The effects of migration and remittances in rural Moldova
Hristev, Eugene; Mincu, Georgeta; Sandu, Maya; … - 2009
Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total...
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FIGHTING AGAINST MALARIA: PREVENT WARS WHILE WAITING FOR THE "MIRACULOUS" VACCINE
García-Montalvo, José; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2002
The World Health Organization estimates that 300 million clinical cases of malaria occur annually and its incidence increased during the 90's. There are basically two factors behind the incidence of malaria: "geographical destiny", or ecological conditions, and social conditions, which are...
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Marchés du travail et disparités régionales en Pologne
BOURDEAU-LEPAGE, Lise - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 2001
Ce papier analyse empiriquement les conséquences du retour du marché en Pologne sur le niveau des inégalités régionales et sur le degré de polarisation. On observe un accroissement des disparités interrégionales et un processus de re-polarisation qui ne résultent pas d'une...
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CAPITAL HUMANO Y MOVILIDAD ESPACIAL DEL TRABAJO EN LA ECONOMÍA ESPAÑOLA
Martínez, Lorenzo Serrano - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 1998
This paper analyzes the Spanish case, in which a significant degree of regional inequality exists along with scarce net migratory flows. Therefore, we consider spatial differences on human capital returns as a determinant of migration instead of per capita income or wage per worker, as empirical...
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