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Does Migration Raise Agricultural Investment? An Empirical Analysis for Rural Mexico
Böhme, Marcus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
The effect of remittances on capital accumulation remains a contested topic. This paper uses a panel data set from rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable...
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Accounting for China's Growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level (Rawski and Perkins, 2008; Bosworth and Collins, 2008) suggest an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615448
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Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach
Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas; Bilkic, Natasa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791522
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646287
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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....
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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …
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