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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793572

Transferts technologiques Nord-Sud, intégration régionale et dynamique de l'hypothèse de "partenaires commerciaux naturels"

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - In: Revue d'économie du développement : revue trimestrielle 15 (2007) 1, pp. 67-85

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481101

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666468

Remittances and the brain drain : skilled migrants do remit less

Niimi, Yoko (contributor); Özden, Çağlar (contributor); … - 2008

It has been argued that the brain drain's negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants of remittances it considers include migration levels or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666476

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230198

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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540578

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422931

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002482588

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001521332