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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006
Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper … global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital … economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in immigration …
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Immigrants and Natives : Comparative Economic Performance in the U.S., 1850-60 and 1965-80
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996
Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the Civil War were less likely to reside in locations with high immigrant concentrations as their time in the U.S. increased. This is contrary to the experience of recent immigrants who show no decrease in concentration after arrival. The reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473100
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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States
Borjas, George J. - 1991
immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475320
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Why Has Economic Growth Slowed When Innovation Appears to be Accelerating?
Gordon, Robert J. - 2018
, mortality, life expectancy, and immigration. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction between rising inequality and the … contributions to slowing growth are made by a decline in the population share of both legal and illegal immigration and a turnaround …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453162
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Output-related funding in vocational education and training : a discussion paper and case studies
Felstead, Alan - 1998 - July 1998
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The European Central Bank and the Euro : The First Year
Feldstein, Martin - 2000
The creation of the euro and the European Central Bank is a remarkable and unprecedented event in economic and political history: creating a supranational central bank and leaving eleven countries without national currencies of their own. The experience of the first year confirms that one size...
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Tradable Deficit Permits : Efficient Implementation of the Stability Pacin the European Monetary Union
Casella, Alessandra - 1999
Borrowing from the experience of environmental markets, this paper proposes a system of tradable deficit permits as an efficient mechanism for implementing fiscal constraints in the European Monetary Union: having chosen an aggregate target for the Union and an initial distribution of permits,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471505
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EMU : Ready, or Not?
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471509
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The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Europe : Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheets
Favero, Carlo A. - 1999
Available studies on asymmetries in the monetary transmission mechanism within Europe are invariably based on macro-economic evidence: such evidence is abundant but often contradictory. This paper takes a different route by using micro-economic data. We use the information contained in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471558