Migration theories and evidence: an assessment

S Ghatak, P Levine, SW Price - Journal of economic surveys, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy
implications and their empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory …

[PDF][PDF] Las emigraciones interiores en España durante los siglos XIX y XX: una revisión bibliográfica

JS Rodríguez - Ager. Revista de Estudios sobre despoblación y …, 2002 - redalyc.org
La intención de este trabajo es ofrecer una guía bibliográfica acerca de la investigación
sobre emigraciones interiores en España durante los siglos XIX y XX. Tras una breve …

European regional policies in light of recent location theories

D Puga - Journal of economic geography, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Despite large regional policy expenditures, regional inequalities in Europe have not
narrowed substantially over the last two decades, and by some measures have even …

Two‐Tier Labour Markets in the Great Recession: France Versus Spain

S Bentolila, P Cahuc, JJ Dolado… - The economic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
France and Spain have similar labour market institutions and their unemployment rates were
both around 8% just before the Great Recession but subsequently that rate has increased to …

Identifying the determinants of housing prices in China using spatial regression and the geographical detector technique

Y Wang, S Wang, G Li, H Zhang, L Jin, Y Su, K Wu - Applied Geography, 2017 - Elsevier
This study analyzed the direction and strength of the association between housing prices
and their potential determinants in China, from a tripartite perspective that takes into account …

Cultural barriers in migration between OECD countries

M Belot, S Ederveen - Journal of Population Economics, 2012 - Springer
This paper uses a unique set of new indicators enabling us to test the effects of cultural
barriers on migration between OECD countries. Using data on migration flows between 22 …

Regional unemployment persistence (Spain, 1976–1994)

JF Jimeno, S Bentolila - Labour economics, 1998 - Elsevier
This paper examines the degree of persistence of regional relative unemployment. A
theoretical model is built to explain the role of migration, labor force participation, and real …

Determinants of family migration: short moves vs. long moves

S Nivalainen - Journal of Population Economics, 2004 - Springer
This paper examines factors underlying family migration. Based on a sample of stable
Finnish families, both short-and long-distance migration is investigated. The empirical …

Regional migration in Spain: the effect of personal characteristics and of unemployment, wage and house price differentials using pooled cross‐sections

P Antolin, O Bover - Oxford bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We present an empirical model of individual migration using time‐series of cross‐sections
from the Spanish Labour Force Surveys 1987–1991. Personal characteristics not only have …

Education and mobility

S Machin, KG Salvanes… - Journal of the European …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labor
mobility. We reach this conclusion from an analysis of a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian …