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A global view of cross-border migration
Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339572
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian - 2014
flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056595
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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michal; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011629347
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911691
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Are International R&D Spillovers Trade-Related? Analyzing Spillovers Among Randomly Matched Trade Partners
Keller, Wolfgang - 2021
In this paper, I analyze recent findings by Coe and Helpman (1995) on trade-related international R&D spillovers. A Monte Carlo based robustness test is proposed which compares the elasticity of domestic productivity with respect to foreign R&D estimated by Coe and Helpman with an elasticity...
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Mismatch and assimilation
Wang, Ping; Wong, Tsz-nga; Yip, Chong Kee - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913067
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The power of the family
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003458846
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236844
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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122467
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children need to have for their parents for over 70...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760117