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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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Short and Long-run Behaviour of Long-term Sovereign Bond Yields

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2010

This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...

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Spend-and-tax: A Panel Data Investigation for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2009

, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a …

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Budgetary and External Imbalances Relationship: A Panel Data Diagnostic

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2009

between the two imbalances for each country for the period 1970-2007, and for different EU and OECD country groupings. The …

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3-Step Analysis of Public Finances Sustainability: the Case of the European Union

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2008

We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

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What do we really Know about Fiscal Sustainability in the EU? A Panel Data Diagnostic

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2008

We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically … revenues. While sustainability may be lacking in individual cases, fiscal policy was overall sustainable both for the EU15 …

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Bootstrap Panel Granger-Causality between Government Budget and External Deficits for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2009

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France …

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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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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016

Moriconi, Simone - 2018

coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …

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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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