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How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the past three decades, during which population pressures contributed to substantial labor flows from neighboring countries into the United States and Europe, with the coming three...
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unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
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) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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evidence from prayers for rain in Murcia, Spain that the church follows such an optimal policy and that its prayers therefore … for rain is more likely among ethnic groups dependent on intensive agriculture for subsistence and that ethnic groups …
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implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
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France while expansions have a larger impact in Italy and Spain …
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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reallocation of labor from agriculture to manufacturing and services, which have higher capital intensity and use resources more … Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …
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prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
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process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …
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