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Forced Migration and Refugees : Policies for Successful Economic and Social Integration

Bahar, Dany; Brough, Rebecca J.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic...

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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective

Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …

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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows

Amanzadeh, Naser; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled...

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The Economics of Women's Rights

Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … subsistence agriculture towards salaried work in industry and services -- child penalties take over as the dominant driver of …

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A Century of Work and Leisure

Ramey, Valerie A. - 2006

develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …

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The Global Decline of the Labor Share

Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2013

The stability of the labor share of income is a key foundation in macroeconomic models. We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly declined since the early 1980s, with the decline occurring within the large majority of countries and industries. We show that the decrease...

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Exploring Reallocation's Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth

Nishida, Mitsukuni - 2013

Two recent meta-analyses use variants of the Baily, Hulten, and Campbell (1992) (BHC) decompositions to ask whether recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input reallocation. They find weak gains from measured...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...

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National Cultures and Soccer Violence

Miguel, Edward - 2008

Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a natural experiment offered by the presence of thousands of...

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