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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra - 2014

Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés …

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Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond : Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications

Kennan, John - 2017

anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number of refugees from Syria and other broken countries sought to … migrate to EU countries (along very dangerous routes), and these refugees were met with fierce resistance, at least in some …

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The Globalization of Refugee Flows

Devictor, Xavier; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn; Levchenko, Andrei A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

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Demographic Changes and International Factor Mobility

Helliwell, John F. - 2004

This paper reviews the extent and policy implications of linkages between demographic changes and international factor mobility. Evidence is found of significant demographic effects on both migration and the current account, but for different reasons neither increased migration nor international...

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On the Relationship Between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States

Bassetto, Marco - 2011

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between public capital spending and population dynamics at the state level. Empirically, we document two robust facts. First, states with faster population growth do not spend more (per capita) to accommodate the needs of their growing population....

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Growth, Distribution and Demography : Some Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1997

If we have learned anything from the recent outpouring of empirical growth equations is that life is far too complex to expect unconditional' convergence among all countries and at" all times. This fact motivates two questions. First, why has it taken economists so long to learn" the same lesson...

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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain, and the UK

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...

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Malthusian Migrations

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

For most of human history, until the fertility transition, technological progress translated into larger populations, preventing sustained improvements in living standards. We argue that migration offered an escape valve from these Malthusian dynamics after the European discovery and...

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …

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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele - 2016

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

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