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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the United States and Mexico
López Real, Joel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246867
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Donors’ Openness to Immigration and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
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Migration Experience, Aspirations and the Brain Drain - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905577
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Village level inequality, migration and remittances in rural Mexico: How do they change over time?
Arslan, Aslihan; Taylor, J. Edward - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally … migration (attrition), we find that migration prevalence has increased between 2002 and 2007 reversing the unequalizing effects … inequality, and find that the regions that had the highest increase in international migration are also the regions where the …
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When a Random Sample is Not Random. Bounds on the Effect of Migration on Household Members Left Behind
Steinmayr, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074719
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Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families: Housework, Hammock, or Higher Education
Görlich, Dennis; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and … education are affected by migration. Based on household survey data from Moldova, our results challenge the assertion that those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755127
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Can Oil-led Growth and Structural Change Go Hand in Hand in Ghana? A Multi-sector Intertemporal General Equilibrium Assessment
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
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Entrepreneurship, knowledge, and the industrial revolution
Attar, M. Aykut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs' role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its...
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Innovation and Productivity in European Industries
Pianta, Mario; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755207
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Equity market liberalization, credit constraints and income inequality
Sun, Puyang; Sen, Somnath; Jin, Shujing - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper provides compelling evidence that equity market liberalization, the most efficient way to smooth financial market frictions such as credit constraints, can alleviate persistent cross-dynastic income inequality through increasing the accumulation of human capital. We examine the impact...
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