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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has …

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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country : Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2021

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Konya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. This...

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Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization

Jain, Dr. Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2021

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...

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The Dynamic Implications of Liberalizing Global Migration

Delogu, Marco - 2014

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 … are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases by …

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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries 1986-2006

Boubtane, Ekrame - 2015

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after...

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Growth and the Geography of Knowledge

Aloi, Marta - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...

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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment : Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2021

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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The Scandinavian Model - Prospects and Challenges

Andersen, Torben M. - 2007

Scandinavian countries are often portrayed in policy debates as model examples having shown how to square concerns for efficiency and equity. The core principle of the Scandinavian welfare model is an individual entitlement to public sector provisions combined with collective financing via...

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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2021

The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to lowwage economies. This trend challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance markets are missing. The main results are: (i)...

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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2007

Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...

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