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This paper builds a Keynesian type econometric model with a dynamic perspective and a sound theoretical basis, for investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with...
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suggest that ``trade and migration are substitutes,'' labor markets in both the US and Canada exhibit substantial and … persistent interregional migration, with gross migration rates that greatly exceed net migration rates, especially for highly …-educated workers. High gross migration rates are consistent with the hypothesis that education contributes to skill-specialization and …
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Both current and especially new member states of the European Union face incentives to distort the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education towards country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many...
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The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. Such effects may be especially severe for the prospective new member states of the European Union. The European Union could overcome this by allowing countries to institute graduate taxes or...
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: During the last couple of decades, the migratory movements in Chile have been minimum, regions are far from achieving match in the per capíta income, situation that would give persistence to the regional inequity. According to studies, in 52 years, half of the gap between a rich and a poor...
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The consequences of international migration for development in countries of origin and destination remain hotly debated … (attending a school), if the immigration police only authorizes very short migration. …
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Both in demographic as well as in sociological terms, much of West European fears about East European migration at … least conceal the real issues of the future migration processes. An analysis of world population growth trends shows that …
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in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting …
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This is a brief and largely descriptive summary of migration flows in and out of Lesotho, and trends therein over tha …
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that there are gains to be made from migration: ceteris paribus, migrants are expected to earn more than non …-migrants (Todaro, 1989). This paper utilizes a rich data set from Peru to assess the determinants of migration. We find that, when …
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