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Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Conditions
Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Huang, Peng - EconWPA - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119455
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Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa
Cynamon, Barry - EconWPA - 2001
This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining … support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration … immigration and then reviews the current landscape of U.S. immigration and the H-1B visa market, showing the strong moral and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408048
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Treading Water in the High-tech Global Economy: An Investigation of United States Immigration Policy with an Eye on the H-1B Visa
Cynamon, Barry Z. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper addresses objections to immigration on the basis of their skill level—examining the historical results of … United States immigration policy in an effort to support a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to … include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. Not only does an historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556501
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“Dynamic Effects of Migrant Remittances on Growth: An Econometric Model with an Application to Mediterranean Countries”. Discussion Paper, No. 74, KEPE, Athens, 2002.
GLYTSOS, NICHOLAS - EconWPA - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076545
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Directions of Trade Flows and Labor Movements between High- And Low-Population Growth Countries: An Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Analysis
Sayan, Serdar; Uyar, Ali Emre - EconWPA - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125644
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying for Migration and Teaching for Staying?
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125879
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125946
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Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Hainmueller, Jens; Hiscox, Michael J. - EconWPA - 2005
Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor market competition as a potent … immigration available from the 2003 European Social Survey. In contrast to predictions based upon conventional arguments about … labor market competition, which anticipate that individuals will oppose immigration of workers with similar skills to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062482
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INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OF SKILLED LABOUR, WELFARE AND UNEMPLOYMENT OF UNSKILLED LABOUR: A NOTE
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062626
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The Effect of Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants' Earnings
Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408315