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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8631 Johannes Koettl
Olga Kupets
Anna Olefir
Indhira Santos
In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:21)
J61, J68, P25
8630 John T. Giles
Ren Mu
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 100 (2), 521-544)
O12, O15, J61, Q15, R23
8629 Gregory Verdugo
Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (1), 237-265)
J15, R50
8627 Govert Bijwaard
Jackline Wahba
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094)
F22, J61, C41
8626 Delia Furtado
Tao Song
Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American ...
(published in: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 662 (1), 207-222)
J12, J24, J31, J61
8625 Gil S. Epstein
Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework
Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, ...
(published as 'Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 4:9 )
F22, J15, Z10
8624 Alisher Aldashev
Alexander M. Danzer
Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2308-2326)
J24, I21, P23, O15
8623 Stephan L. Thomsen
Friederike von Haaren
Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6)
I22, I28, H75
8622 Mehtabul Azam
Geeta G. Kingdon
Assessing Teacher Quality in India
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 74–83)
I21, O15
8621 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity ...
(published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.)
I25, I28, J38, J45, O12, O15
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