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While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper compares price inflation before the crisis with the...
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countries may see no significant further benefits from Turkey’s full accession to the EU (whereas the migration and political …
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We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross country and cohort variation in heights and employ a new instrument for democracy and the extension of...
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indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …
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with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing … due to increased housing costs, landowners may win. Moreover, we show how the relationship between migration and capital … reversal of migration during the transition to the steady state, like observed in East Germany after unification in 1990. It is …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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second country, from which a steady stream of greenhouse gases occur. If this migration imposes costs on the emitting country …, then migration induces a sort of pseudo carbon tax.via political economic forces. This pseudo tax creates an incentive for …), is smaller in the presence of migration. I discuss various comparative dynamics, for both the path of production and the …
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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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number has fueled fears about “Brain Drain” as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration … can compensate for the selection of high-skilled workers into migration. This papers measures the selection, incentive and … migration, thereby decreasing the average schooling level in the origin countries. However, stronger incentives to invest in …
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