The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills on Migration Decisions
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Keywords
Noncognitive Skills; Mobility Costs; Returns to Migration;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2017-10-01 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2017-10-01 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2017-10-01 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-NEU-2017-10-01 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-URE-2017-10-01 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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