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"Ireland experienced dramatic levels of emigration in the century following the Famine of 1845-1849. The paper surveys the recent cliometric literature on post-Famine emigration and its effects on Irish living standards. The conclusions are that the Famine played a significant role in unleashing the subsequent emigration; and that emigration was crucial for the impressive increase in Irish livi...

Environ. Entomol. 20(1): 230—240 (1991) ABSTRACT Canopy and bidirectional Malaise traps were used to estimate the flight activity of northern corn rootworms, Diabrotica barberi Smith & Lawrence, and western corn root worms, D. virgifera virgifera LeConte, above the plant canopy and at the lateral boundaries of cornfields. Capture of beetles in both types of traps was greatest during preand post...

This study investigates the effects of the macroeconomic context on attitudes to immigration. Earlier studies do in some cases not provide significant empirical support for the existence of important such effects. In this article it is argued that this lack of consistent evidence is mainly due to the cross-national setup of these studies being vulnerable to estimation bias caused by country-spe...

For long, state building has been addressed as the expression of an exclusive power over a portion space and population. In recent years, scholarship moved away from such conception by regarding assemblage multi-scalar public private actors, beneath beyond its territorial borders. This paper adds to this conversation focusing on way states transform they engage with migration-induced transnatio...

This study assesses macroeconomic and sectoral impacts of demographic changes in the Czech Republic as a result population ageing international migration. To do so, it develops unique dynamic Overlapping Generations Computable General Equilibrium (OLG–CGE) model with detailed representation individuals different ages, educational attainment occupations, well interrelations among industrial sect...

The federal system has long been seen as one of the biggest obstacles to digital transformation German state. With enactment Online Access Act (OZG), a law that obliges all levels offer their administrative services digitally in joint portal network by end 2022, new arena for multilevel collaboration developed Germany; so-called digitalisation labs. labs are intended bring together representati...

Population ageing is a topic of great concern in many countries. To counteract the negative effects ageing, increased fertility or immigration are often proposed as demographic remedies. Changed emigration is, however, rarely mentioned. We explore whether reduced could mitigate country like Norway. Using cohort-component methods, we create hypothetical future scenarios with lower rates, and pre...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the determinants of displacement behavior based on various push and pull factors at the village level. The study concentrates on changes in village population during three years of civil conflict (1999-2002) in Aceh, Indonesia. The empirical analysis is based on a unique dataset from two census rounds of the Indonesian Village Potential Census (PODES). I...

The flow of populations within and across international boundaries is an important element in today’s globalized world. Recent estimates of migration patterns place the combined numbers of international migrants and internal migrants at nearly a billion people [1]. Although migrant populations are extremely diverse, the processes of migration include certain characteristics shared by all migran...