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Interregional migration, human capital externalities and unemployment dynamics : evidence from Italian provinces

Basile, Roberto; Girardi, Alessandro; Mantuano, Marianna; … - 2017

We analyze the effect of interregional migration on regional unemployment in Italy. With the help of a simple two … document that net outflows of human capital from the South to the North have increased the unemployment rate in the South …, while it did not affect the unemployment rate in the North. Our analysis contributes to the literature on interregional …

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Determinants of internal migration in Norway

McArthur, David Philip; Thorsen, Inge - 2010

variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …

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Shocking Germany : a spatial analysis of German regional labor markets

Krebs, Oliver - 2018

This paper quantifies the surprisingly large heterogeneity of real income and employment effects across German counties in response to local productivity shocks. Using a quantitative model with imperfect mobility and sector-specific labor market frictions together with an outstanding data set of...

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Job displacement, inter-regional mobility and long-term earnings

Maczulskij, Terhi; Böckerman, Petri; Kosonen, Tuomas - 2018

We examine the effect of job displacement on regional mobility using linked employeremployee panel data for the 1995-2014 period. We also study whether displaced movers obtain earnings and employment gains compared to displaced stayers. The results show that job displacement increases the...

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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment : Identifying Short-Run and Equilibrium Adjustment Effects

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2006

-2000 annual data for 40 regions in The Netherlands, controlling for region and time-specific heterogeneity. Identification of the …

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Regional economic impacts of immigration : a review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009 - Version: 23 July 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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Economic shocks and internal migration

Monras, Joan - 2015

Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that geographic relocation does not help mitigate negative local economic shocks during recessions. This paper shows that this is not the case. I document that net in-migration rates...

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Why do people still live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to … able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

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Identifying functional labour market areas in New Zealand : a reconnaissance study using travel-to-work data

Papps, Kerry L.; Newell, James O. - 2002

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Adjustment in Local Labour and Housing Markets

Grimes, Arthur L.; Maré, David C.; Morten, Melanie - 2015

This paper analyses local labour and hosuing market adjustment in New Zealand from 1989 to 2006. We use a VAR approach to examine the adjustment of employment, employment rate, participation rate, wages, and house prices in response to employment shocks. Migration is a major adjustment response...

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