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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004

If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline … in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting …

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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...

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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration

Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003

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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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...

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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...

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Subsidios de Educación: Impacto en la Migración y Convergencia Regional.

Duran, Gonzalo - EconWPA - 2005

: 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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IMMIGRANTS IN SPAIN: SKILLS ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT. A REGIONAL STUDY.

Díaz-Emparanza, Ignacio; Espinosa, Alexandra M. - EconWPA - 2001

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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Towards a new EU policy for the Mediterranean South? Culture, migration and the de-velopment of social indicators in a wider Europe. Conference Paper, The European Union Neighbourh...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

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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Lesotho: Will the Enclave Empty?

cobbe, james - EconWPA - 2004

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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Internal Migration and Borrowing Constraints: Evidence from Peru

Laszlo, Sonia; Santor, Eric - EconWPA - 2004

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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