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In this paper we present new evidence on the aggregate effect of the euro on trade using data for 26 OECD countries for …
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experience. The general finding is that trade matters more than migration, which is contrary to the public attention both …The paper investigates the relative importance of trade and immigration for earnings and job mobility of male German … exhibits a positive effect. Trade seems to depress occupational mobility and internal movement, but stimulates inter …
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Gravity has long been one of the most successful empirical models in economics. Incorporating deeper theoretical foundations of gravity into recent practice has led to a richer and more accurate estimation and interpretation of the spatial relations described by gravity. Wider acceptance has...
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Tomatoes or tomato pickers? Free trade and migration between Mexico and the United States …
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migration between Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Western European countries. This paper considers the possibility that … some of these consequences make themselves felt in the trade flows between migrants' countries of origin and destination … examine the effects of immigration from these transition countries on their bilateral trade flows with the UK. We pay …
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As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
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the network effect of FDI, migration, and the Internet on international trade. Further, the findings show differences in … network effect for both the manufacturing and service sectors, whereas migration is important only for the manufacturing …
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, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …
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different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …
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This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs. low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct …-skill intensive, emigration of high- skill labour leads to positive FDI, suggesting that migration and FDI are complements. Cross …-sectional analysis using FDI and emigration data for 103 migration-sending countries over the period 1990-2000 finds some support for …
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