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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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This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
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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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coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …
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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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antidumping actions against China from developed and developing countries, US and EU to compare their different effects. We find … industry reactions to antidumping actions by the US and EU are the same as for other developed countries, but the effects of US … actions are larger. US antidumping actions have more impact than EU's on firm numbers, employees and exports, and EU …
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The paper models the host country stylistically as a member of the core of an economic union (i.e., a core EU welfare …. The source country is modeled as an accession country to an economic union (i.e., through the EU enlargement treaty), with …
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Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...
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among the EU 15 and EU 10 in the enlarged European Union, as of 2004. We also demonstrate that the notion that the mere …
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We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
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