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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959792
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959660
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466025
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763470
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552468
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North-South Trade Liberalization and Returns to Skill in the South: The Case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam; Otero, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822436
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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822670
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999937
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Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children
Doepke, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074819
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703120