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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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Migration and cross-border financial flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787347
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
compositional and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648747
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Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality
Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382705
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909197
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519903
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230198
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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Does birthplace diversity affect economic complexity? : cross-country evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2020
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity by one standard deviation are more economically complex by 0.1 to 0.18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194569
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178399