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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data

Peri, Giovanni - 2019

This paper examines the impact of temperature changes on rural-urban migration using a 56km×56km grid cell level dataset covering the whole world at 10-year frequency during the period 1970-2000. We find that rising temperatures reduce rural-urban migration in poor countries and increase such...

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Should they stay or should they go? : climate migrants and local conflicts

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Peri, Giovanni - In: Journal of economic geography 21 (2021) 4, pp. 619-651

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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data

Peri, Giovanni - 2019

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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The Effect of Income and Immigration Policies on International Migration

Ortega, Francesc - 2012

elasticity is twice as high for within-EU migration, reflecting the higher degree of labor mobility within the European Union. We …

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …

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The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Breakup : Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch?

Gordon, Robert J. - 1999

This paper examines the macroeconomic aftermath of the 1992 breakdown of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). The economic performance of six leaver' nations is compared with five stayer' nations that maintained a roughly fixed parity with the Deutsche Mark. Recent writing about...

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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Dew-Becker, Ian L. - 2008

, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment … employment growth across countries and time. Our primary explanatory variables to explain both the revival of EU employment …

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Productivity in the Transportation Sector

Gordon, Robert J. - 2007

This is a comprehensive study of measurement and substantive issues that arise in determining the rate of multi factor productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment are provided by two government agencies and...

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Immigrants, Labor Market Dynamics and Adjustment to Shocks in the Euro Area

Basso, Gaetano - 2018

We analyze the role of labor mobility in cushioning labor demand shocks in the Euro Area. We find that foreign born workers' mobility is strongly cyclical, while this is not the case for natives. Foreigners' higher population to employment elasticity reduces the variation of overall employment...

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