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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466340
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
Giovanni, Julian di - 2014
differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of …
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Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets
Dinkelman, Taryn; Kumchulesi, Grace; Mariotti, Martine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200%, bringing over 53 million USD in earnings into origin communities. A deadly migrant worker plane crash in 1974 ended these flows and led to migrant repatriation. We study how this...
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2008
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...
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Defining Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019
United States and Germany we find that 80-90 percent of entrepreneurs are opportunity entrepreneurs. Applying our proposed …
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Uncertainty and Economic Activity : Evidence from Business Survey Data
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2010
data from the U.S. and Germany in structural VARs, we find that positive innovations to business uncertainty lead to …
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Business Cycle Accounting
Chari, V.V. - 2004
We propose a simple method to help researchers develop quantitative models of economic fluctuations. The method rests on the insight that many models are equivalent to a prototype growth model with time-varying wedges which resemble productivity, labor and investment taxes, and government...
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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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