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This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …
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the first estimates of the quantitative significance of these agents to African American migration. Specifically, we take … migration out of the two states, we find that the emigrant agent laws had no direct effect on migration. Though there is some … limited evidence that the sensitivity of migration flows to economic differences within the South was lower if an emigrant …
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This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I …
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There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals assimilating in a largely anonymous labour market, a view that runs counter to the spirit of the equally...
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after migration? To what extent does this represent a head start as opposed to long-term labour market advantage …
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Much of the debate surrounding the impact of immigration of the economy relates to the consequences of immigration for aggregate unemployment. In this paper we explore a related but more specific issue: the consequences of immigration on the probability of unemployed residents gaining a job....
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This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an adding-up constraint imposed to control for variation in households’ total net worth. Our results...
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since migration, etc.); and an extended model that is feasible only with the extra information available in the HILDA data … migration in recent years. By providing a clearer understanding of why and how the individual and subgroup level characteristics …
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The focus is on macro-economic effects of international migration, the evidence used is Australian and the conclusions …
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