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Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024. The …

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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration? Is it …

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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper examines the industrial performance indicators and the relationships between skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new growth literature, concerning the correlation...

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Assessment of skill and technology indicators at the macro-micro levels in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

In this paper we examine skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. Different from the Sudanese literature, a novel element in our analysis is that we use new primary data from the macro and firm surveys and we provide a new contribution and fill the gap in the...

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Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

education (share in enrolment in education) is most probably due to economic reasons (per capita income and poverty rate … the incidence of high poverty rate and low per capita income seem to be the most important factor limiting the demand for … findings is that poverty eradication is key for the achievement of universal access to primary education and gender equality …

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...

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Demographic Dividends Revisited

Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper revisits demographic dividend issues after almost two decades of debate. In 1998, David Bloom and Jeffrey Williamson used a convergence model to estimate the impact of demographic-transition-driven age structure effects and calculated what the literature has come to call the...

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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high wage economies. It examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the...

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