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This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The paper investigates the possibility that this discrepancy...
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The Paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low, it turns out that its intensity does depend on...
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We study barriers to labor mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia for 1995-2010. We find that barriers that hindered internal migration in 1990s have been generally eliminated by the end of 2000s. In 1990s many poor Russian regions were in poverty traps:...
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This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...
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We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s anti-dumping regime, considering both the characteristics of …
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evidence to assess the relative magnitudes of these three effects as they apply to further trade liberalization in Mexico. We … study the determinants of the industry pattern of US imports from Mexico and of value added by Mexico's maquiladora sector … effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico. …
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This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …
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Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around …, and to those attributable to domestic forces specific to Mexico. It uses a neo-Ricardian model (with non …
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government might be tempted to devalue. In Mexico it would also appear that the costs and benefits of maintaining the regime were …
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We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide …
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