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somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …
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flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …
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immigration. Tolls restore efficiency, but enable the migrant-receiving country to capture all efficiency gains from migration. We …
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This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of European and US companies. We build a dynamic model of career progression in which career moves both depend upon existing networks and contribute to the development of future...
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China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters...
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,capital-scarce and low productivity, countries, in order to explain key features of tax policies and inter- and intra-migration flows … migration flows, on the other hand, between rich and poor countries, within the union, and migration flows from the rest of the …
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Inspired by Hayek (1945), we study the distortionary effects of taxation on labor mobility and the long run allocation of labor across different profitable opportunities. These effects are not well detected by the methods applied in the large public finance literature estimating the elasticity...
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This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall...
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. We investigate theoretically and empirically how bank organization shapes banking competition. Our theoretical model … organizational structure and technology of rival banks in the vicinity influence local banking competition. …
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We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with an heterogeneous banking sector. We introduce endogenous … market. Our aim is to understand the interactions between the banking sector and the rest of the economy, as well as the …
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