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Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely … focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development … consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide …
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It is clear that the future of the transport sector is fraught withuncertainties, as the system can be influenced by many factors thatcan develop in various ways. The aim of this paper is to gain insightinto the future development of the transportation sector. It presentsthe development of the...
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We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy …
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Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...
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The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …, and impacts are generally smaller in the U.S. than in other countries studied to date. From the policy perspective …
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means of network geometries, small-world effects and scale-free phenomena. We will illustrate these new developments on the …
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Many networks such as the Internet have been found to possess scale-free and small-world network properties reflected …. The present paper will examine and compare properties of telecommunications networks for both the United States and Europe …
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findings. The paper concludes with lessonsfor infrastructure policy. …
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The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
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