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Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...
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Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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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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population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with …
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This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … consumption growth. Although moving out of agriculture resulted in much higher growth than staying in agriculture, growth was …
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This paper examines migrants' choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, we design an empirical … strategy which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of … Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census and examine how the choice of a migration destination is influenced by …
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. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
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, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the predictive power of all of the …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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