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In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …
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Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international … boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become …
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Legalization of abortion in the 1970s represents a major cultural change: it gives women a higher degree of freedom to directly control their fertility, allowing them to ultimately decide upon children without man’s consent and to decrease uncertainty in their expected labor market returns....
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to selection into and out of marriage, while the second hinges on insurance transfers taking place within households. We … and life-cycle labor supply, endogenous marriage contracts and the possibility of time transfers between partners. We also … report evidence that the extended model with endogenous marriage contracts can fit divorce patterns observed in Canadian data …
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. The links between individuals - e.g. by friendship, marriage or collaboration - are not evenly distributed, but rather …
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in the spouse’s potential marriage market increases wives’ bargaining power in the household while it lowers their …
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existence of asymmetric equilibrium in which either firm chooses relocation of its plant even if the duopoly firms are identical …
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-intensive sectors, when countries differ in terms of market size. The cases of partial and total relocation via foreign direct … strategy shift this takes the form of partial instead of total relocation. In the long-run total relocation becomes a feasible …
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The standard empirical analysis of immigration, based on a simple labor demand and labor supply framework, has emphasized the negative impact of foreign born workers on the average wage of U.S.-born workers (particularly of those without a high school degree). A precise assessment of the average...
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The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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