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This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the macroeconomic conditions of the host (remittance...
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Luxembourg Presidency. The membership treaty with Bulgaria and Romania will be finalised with a view to signature in 25 April …, the EU Parliament voted 407-262 in favour of Turkey's entry. Romania feels and acts like a European country. You will … rather notice a European flag in Bucharest than in London, for example. Romania is not only a country who makes effort to …
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compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to work for much lower wages. We examine new data on attitudes toward …
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Since recent immigrants tend to earn less than natives, their relative labor market status has been adversely impacted by an increase in the return to labor market skills and widening wage inequality over the past two decades. To evaluate the magnitude of this effect, this study uses Social...
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In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...
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This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives...
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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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This paper considers a two-country world where the population in one country grows faster than the other, and investigates the implications of the addition of non-stationary population dynamics to a simple 2- commodity, 2-factor model of international trade within an overlapping- generations...
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income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. By giving the providers of internationally applicable education a …
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by allowing countries to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper …
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