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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration

Docquier, Frédéric - 2010

In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...

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Estimating real production and expenditures across nations : a proposal for improving the Penn world tables

Feenstra, Robert C. (contributor) - 2004

"In this paper we propose a new approach to international comparisons of real GDP measured from the output-side. The …

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Product Variety, the Cost of Living and Welfare Across Countries

Cavallo, Alberto; Feenstra, Robert C.; Inklaar, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use the structure of the Melitz (2003) model to compare the cost of living and welfare across countries, while incorporating product variety measured by the count of barcodes or firms. For 47 countries, we compare welfare relative to the United States to conventional measures of real...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and …

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World Trade Flows : 1962-2000

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data … are organized by the 4-digit Standard International Trade Classification, revision 2, with country codes similar to the … United Nations classification. This dataset updates the Statistics Canada World Trade Database as described in Feenstra …

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Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations : A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004

In this paper we propose a new approach to international comparisons of real GDP measured from the output-side. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467823

Undertstanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation : The Role of Differentiating Goods

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1998

This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most existing theory for the gravity equation depends on the assumption of differentiated goods. We show...

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Putting Things in Order : Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Growth

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We develop a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using dis-aggregated American imports data. We find strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent with the product cycle' hypothesis. Countries habitually begin to export goods to the United States...

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World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with Production and Tariff Data

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

This paper describes two databases dealing with world bilateral trade flows: the World Trade Database (WTDB) assembled … Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 2 (with some modification); and the Compatible Trade and Production …-1985, classified according to the International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 2. These databases are available to …

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Market Share and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in World Automobile Trade

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1993

This paper explores the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and market share for monopolistically competitive exporters. Under fairly general assumptions we show that pass-through should be high for exporters based in a country with a very large share of total destination market...

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