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On the Political Economy of High Skilled Migration and International Trade

Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Douglas R. - CESifo - 2012

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

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Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2012

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...

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Regional Implications of Financial Market Development: Credit Rationing, Trade, and Location

Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2013

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2014

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - CESifo - 2015

This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...

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