Labor migration, human capital agglomeration and regional development in China

Y Fu, SA Gabriel - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional
human capital agglomeration on labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional …

What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany

M Arntz - Regional Studies, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
A rntz M. What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional
job matches in Germany, Regional Studies. By examining pecuniary and non-pecuniary …

Housing prices and inter-urban migration

AJ Plantinga, C Détang-Dessendre, GL Hunt… - Regional science and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Economic theory predicts that individual migration decisions for working-age adults will
depend on area differences in wages, housing costs, and amenities. While the importance of …

Modelling skilled and less‐skilled interregional migrations in China, 2000–2005

Y Liu, J Shen - Population, Space and Place, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Previous analysis and modelling of interregional migration in China have treated migrants
as a homogenous group. The flow of skilled migration is the focus of recent research …

The dynamics of refugee return: Syrian refugees and their migration intentions

A Alrababah, D Masterson, M Casalis… - British Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We study the drivers of refugees' decision making about returning home using observational
and experimental data from a survey of 3,003 Syrian refugees in Lebanon. We find that the …

Entry into working life: Internal migration and the job match quality of higher‐educated graduates

VA Venhorst, F Cörvers - Journal of regional science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the impact of internal migration on job‐match quality for recent Dutch university
and college graduates. We find positive yet modest wage returns. After controlling for the self …

How Do Support Pressure and Urban Housing Purchase Affect the Homecoming Decisions of Rural Migrant Workers? Evidence from Rural China

L Niu, L Yuan, Z Ding, Y Zhao - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Talent revitalization is the basis of rural revitalization, and the return of migrant workers to
their hometowns is a critical way to improve rural human capital. Based on the perspective of …

On the dynamics of interstate migration: Migration costs and self-selection

C Bayer, F Juessen - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper develops a dynamic structural model of migration decisions that is aggregated to
describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal …

The creative class, bohemians and local labor market performance: A micro-data panel study for Germany 1975–2004

J Möller, A Tubadji - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009 - degruyter.com
The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for
323West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. Applying a dynamic system …

Location‐specific human capital, location choice and amenity demand

DJ Krupka - Journal of Regional Science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The role of amenities in the flow of migrants has long been a subject of debate. This paper
advances an original model of amenities that work through household production instead of …