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(China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic …
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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We re-visit the evidence about the trade benefits of European Monetary Union (EMU), focusing on the experience of … countries which adopted the common currency since 2002. Based on “state of the art” gravity estimations for the period 1992 …-2013, we reach three main conclusions. First, estimates from an appropriately specified and estimated gravity equation provide …
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Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. This provides an important contribution to the trade literature of Ricardian …
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attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers … line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support freer trade and more …
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investigate the "global" determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as …-industrialization and of internet expansion. Low-skill immigration, on the other hand, tends to induce a transfer of votes from left-wing to … well as high-skill immigration, tend to reduce the volume of populism. …
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model, where the UK can commit to mobility, and the EU may constrain trade to dissuade future secession, or to punish the UK …. The model highlights the importance of whether the EU views trade and labor mobility as substitutes, in line with standard … trade theory, or as complements, as suggested by EU statements about inseparable freedoms. In the former case, the UK can …
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effects of integration but more pronounced labour market effects from immigration. …
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impacts on particular locations, and immigration reforms, which led to large spatially concentrated increases in skilled …
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In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...
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