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Geopolitics and the World Trading System

Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Until the beginning of this century, the GATT/WTO system worked. Economic research provided a compelling explanation. It showed that if governments maximize the well-being of their own countries broadly defined, GATT/WTO principles would facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation over their...

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The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2008

international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a …

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …

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International migrations

Willcox, Walter Francis (contributor) - 1929

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Mobile Scientists and International Networks

Scellato, Giuseppe - 2012

This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the … evidence suggests that migration plays an important role in the formation of international networks. Approximately 40 percent … that internationally mobile researchers contribute significantly to extending the international scope and quality of the …

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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John - 2017

Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...

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The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border : Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas - 2015

Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...

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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines

Beam, Emily - 2014

experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. Our most intensive … treatment doubled the rate of job offers but had no identifiable effect on international labor migration. Even the highest …

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Fiscal and Migration Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2010

It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...

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Migration and the Welfare State : A Dynamic Political-Economy Theory

Razin, Assaf - 2009

We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner...

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