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On What States Do Prices Depend? Answers From Ecuador
Benedict, Craig - 2016
In this paper, we argue that differences in the cost structure across sectors play an important role in the decision of firms to adjust their prices. We develop a menu-cost model of pricing in which retail firms intermediate trade between producers and consumers. An important facet of our...
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The Rise and Fall of U.S. Low-Skilled Immigration
Hanson, Gordon - 2017
From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …
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Is The Mediterranean The New Rio Grande? US And EU Immigration Pressures In The Long Run
Hanson, Gordon - 2016
How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the past three decades, during which population pressures contributed to substantial labor flows from neighboring countries into the United States and Europe, with the coming three...
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