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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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education away from internationally applicable education towards country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few … income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. By giving the providers of internationally applicable education a … internationally applicable education. …
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The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. Such effects may … could be voluntary, education financed publicly only for those accepting also to share the returns. With EU enlargement …
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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 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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migration equilibrium may permit multiple steady states are identified. Our analysis discusses instances where migration … generates its own demand and explains differences in migration propensities across potential sources of outmigration. …
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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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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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own, but support immigration of workers with different skill levels, we find that people with higher levels of education … question. Across Europe, higher education and higher skills mean more support for all types of immigrants. These relationships … force. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, then, the connection between the education or skill levels of individuals and …
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The present paper makes an attempt to examine theoretically the impact of emigration of skilled labour from developing countries on the level of welfare of the non-migrants and the level of urban unemployment of unskilled labour in a three sector Harris-Todaro model. The analysis suggests that...
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