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We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period 1981–2005, we find that the elasticity of domestic wages to real exchange rate is 0.1 after a year...
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This Paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labour market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of...
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This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
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We consider a country where a king assigns benefits in accordance with privilege determined by the population’s proximity to the throne. People have different relative advantages in seeking privilege and in productive activity. The nature of the contest for privilege determines whether, in...
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equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but … quickens the migration of raw labour towards the West. A greater share of economic activity is eventually located in the … western region. Unions in the West will benefit from this, provided human capital has low migration costs relative to raw …
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This Paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm dataset, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
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'life-cycle' losses from post-war Irish migration against receipts from emigrant tourism and remittances. It turns out that …Much of the controversy about labour migration concerns an aspect which is not easily measured, the 'quality' of the …
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same time they appear to be increasingly concerned about growing migration pressures from outside the European Community … link between migration and growth. We argue that in a relatively poor sending country, an increase in the wage will have a … the period 1962<196>88 provides substantial support for our approach. We estimate the turning point in the migration …
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We demonstrate that there is a nexus between land transfers and human capital formation. A sequence of land redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We find that open access to land markets should be...
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infection and can take migration decisions before their health status is publicly observable. In a 2-period model we study under … which conditions the presence of quarantine measures may lead to inefficient outcomes as individuals' interest in migration …
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