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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332127
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235847
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Family planning and climate change
Gerlagh, Reyer; Lupi, Veronica; Galeotti, Marzio - 2018
the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952006
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Populism and the skill-content of globalization : evidence from the last 60 years
Docquier, Frédéric; Guichard, Lucas; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2022
We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use an imbalanced panel of 628 national elections in 55 countries over 60 years. A first novelty is our reliance on both standard (e.g., the ”volume margin”, or vote share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440433
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806017
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Cultural remittances and modern fertility
Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - 2024
1930, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades … themselves became French citizens achieved lower fertility, particularly those who moved to French regions with the lowest … fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances, consistently with insights from a theoretical …
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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014
A demographic transition resulting from an increase in the size of the young working age population can be a blessing or a curse for economic performance. We focus on the political stability effects of a larger youth population and hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel...
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