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Modeling for Determinants of Human Trafficking

Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This study aims to identify robust push and pull factors of human trafficking. I test for the robustness of 78 push and 67 pull factors suggested in the literature. By employing an extreme bound analysis, running more than two million regressions with all possible combinations of variables for...

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...

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China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in … students enrolled in Chinese higher education institutions has increased dramatically; China is producing serious scholars and … students find a rising interest in receiving education in China. …

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Labor Supply of Married Females in Estonia

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Koulikov, Dmitri - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

In this paper we estimate the labor supply function for married females in Estonia. Particularly, we are interested in determining the elasticities of the weekly supply of hours with respect to hourly wage rates and with respect to nonlabor income. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In...

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Pension Reform Options for Russia and Ukraine: A Critical Analysis of Available Options and Their Expected Outcomes (with a Focus on Labour Market, Industrial Restructuring and Pub...

Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinyavskaya, Oxana - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Russia and Ukraine are in the process of many changes stemming from economic transition, restructuring, demographic change and other various ongoing challenges. In terms of the ongoing challenges in each country, there are specific problems related to historical developments, such as large scale...

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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...

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Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits...

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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...

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Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

effect on the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled migrants. Simplifying restrictions on substitutability across destinations …

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