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We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
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an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper examines a political- economy, inter-generational, mechanism … demonstrate that the Markov equilibrium, with social security, consists of more liberal migration policies, than the corresponding …
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the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …
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an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper examines a political-economy, inter-generational, mechanism … demonstrate that the Markov equilibrium, with social security, consists of more liberal migration policies, than the corresponding …
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
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Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a … number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi …-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is not log-linear. In particular, at small levels of migration (stocks) the …
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In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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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 … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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capital), and the volume of migration (of both skill types), to be higher in the competitive regime than in the coordinated … positive if the (state variable) the capital stock is within a certain range, or zero, otherwise. Migration share of native … level, otherwise. In the case of private saving only regime, the migration share is intermediate level. Thus, migration …
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Public health insurance and other arrangements covering health-costs effectively provide insurance against changes in health status. These arrangements engage in burden-smoothing over the life cycle and entail various elements of redistribution. Lack of portability regarding this type of cover...
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