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Why Doesn't Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience
Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Joining the EU is a natural experiment that drastically opens the borders of richer European countries to immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051168
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Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration: Evidence from Canadian Provinces
Vermeulen, Wessel; Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2015
This paper evaluates whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural … la Obstfeld-Rogoff.  Using data for Canadian provinces, we find evidence that aggregate immigration mitigates the … migration and temporary foreign workers.  There is no evidence of such an effect for permenent international immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164416
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Joining the EU: Capital Flows, Migration and Wages
Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
measure the impact of foreign investment and emigration on skilled and unskilled wages between 1985 and 1999. We find a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047988
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Indices of House Prices and Rent Prices of Residential Property in London, 1895-1939
Samy, Luke - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2015
Data from two different primary sources were used to construct indices of house prices (HPI) and rents (RRPI) of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261240
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Does the Rotten Child Spoil His Companion? Spatial Peer Effects Among Children in Rural India
Helmers, Christian; Patnam, Manasa - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisitions using observational data.  We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child's nearest geographical neighbors, into a prodiction function of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004470
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Earnings, Unemployment, and Housing: Evidence from a Panel of British Regions
Muellbauer, John; Cameron, Gavin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
that in general, regions that have high unemployment tend to have low wages. This runs contrary to a compensating … differentials argument that high wages should compensate for high unemployment. However, levels of labour mobility in Britain, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133047
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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604938
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A Study in Structural Change: Relative Earnings in Wales Since the 1970s
Cameron, Gavin; Muellbauer, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
The Welsh economy has undergone rapid structural change in recent years. This paper uses data from the New Earnings Survey to examine how earnings in Wales changed relative to those of Great Britain between 1975 and 1994. There are five main findings. First, earnings of workers in Wales have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605171
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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
and is higher for those aspiring to a public sector job. The unemployed have realistic reservation wages. Those living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605273
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A STUDY IN STRUCTURAL CHANGE: RELATIVE EARNINGS IN WALES SINCE THE 1970S.
Cameron, G.; Muellbauer, J.; Snicker, J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
The Welsh economy has undergone rapid structural change in recent years. This paper uses data from the New Earnings Survey to examine how earnings in Wales changed relative to those of Great Britain between 1975 and 1994. There are five main findings. First, earnings of workers in Wales have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977864