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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 … regions in the world. We then use the model to study the effect of a spatial shock. We focus on the example of a rise in the … of the world economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252617
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The Trade Effects of Skilled versus Unskilled Migration
Egger, Peter; Nelson, Doug R; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
In this paper, we assess the role of skilled versus unskilled migration for bilateral trade using a flexible reduced-form model where the stocks of skilled and unskilled migrants at the country-pair level are determined as endogenous continuous treatments. The impact of different levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083375
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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468557
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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979473
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Who is Afraid of Globalization? The Challenge of Domestic Adjustment in Europe and America
Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper examines why ‘globaphobia’ seems to be more prevalent among labour in the United States than in Europe. It argues that globalization has generated more wealth, but also more income inequality and adjustment problems, in America than in Europe. In the United States, the median voter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123640
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Who is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration
Mayda, Anna Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes towards immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This Paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and demographic … fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world. The Paper … drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration? Is it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136660
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International Migration, Welfare and the Provision of Public Goods
Gatsios, Konstantine; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, Mike - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of the ‘public finance’ impact of international migration on wages and welfare. To this end, we construct a general equilibrium model of a labour-exporting (source) and a labour-importing (host) country with identical consumers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136698
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Return Intentions of Migrants: Theory and Evidence
Dustmann, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper analyses the return intentions of migrant workers. An intertemporal model is developed where the point of return to the home country is endogenous. The analysis emphasizes three explanations of why it should be optimal to migrate only temporarily: differences in relative prices in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067398
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Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom
Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497920