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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....

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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 …

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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michal; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2016

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Building a better H-1B Program

Sparber, Chad - 2015

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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration

McKenzie, David J.; Yang, Dean - 2014

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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...

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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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Migration and cross-border financial flows

Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

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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...

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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...

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