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Migration Sud-Nord et commerce : une revue de la littérature

Schiff, Maurice W. - In: Revue d'économie du développement : revue trimestrielle 8 (2000) 3, pp. 3-54

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A pair-wise approach to testing for output and growth convergence

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

to output series in the Penn World Tables over 1950-2000, as well as to Maddion's historical series over 1870 …

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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North-South technology diffusion, regional integration, and the dynamics of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are natural trading partners,ʺ while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel (contributor); … - 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...

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Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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China's emergence in the world economy and business cycles in Latin America

Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, … - 2011

world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …

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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a global perspective

Dées, Stephane; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; … - 2008

number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to the underlying macroeconomic theory. The first …

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Measuring skilled emigration rates : the case of small states

Docquier, Frédéric (contributor); … - 2008

Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses on an increasingly important aspect of globalization, the international movement of people, with...

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