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Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan

Coudouel, Aline; Marnie, Sheila; Micklewright, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Falling output and living standards have pushed countries in transition from the socialist system to re-consider how best to target public resources on those in need. The paper investigates the workings of a new social assistance benefit in Uzbekistan, the largest of the former Soviet Central...

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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

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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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

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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Labour Mobility and German Integration: Some Vignettes

Burda, Michael C; Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

amphasis of the rile of migration and labor mobility in this process. The effects of congestion costs, rigid wages, human …

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Redistribution Policy: A European Model

Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

regional allocation requires both national and international transfers. If migration is fully free across all borders, then …

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Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions or Minorities?

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...

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Ageing and Unemployment

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

While ageing is accepted as a major problem for most industrialized societies, its labour market consequences are not yet fully understood. This paper analyses the effects of changes in the age composition of the Federal Republic of Germany on the incidence of unemployment in different sex-age...

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Scale, Diversity and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better … understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings … including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 …

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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What We Cannot Learn from the Irish Experience: A Fundamental Asymmetry of Asymmetric Shocks

Andersson, Fredrik; Forslid, Rikard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

accommodated by a moderate wage increase and sizeable in-migration, whereas a negative shock will be accommodated by a significant … decrease in wages and moderate out-migration. The effects of shocks in a monetary union are discussed, and it is argued that …

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