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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …

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The future of work : challenges for job creation due to global demographic change and automation

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Algur, Eda; Bloom, David E.; … - 2020

estimate the implications for job creation in 2020-2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …

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The impact of climate change on work lessons for developing countries

Feriga, Moustafa; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Serneels, Pieter - 2024

reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with agriculture, heat-exposed manufacturing, and the …. Secondly, climate change impacts labor supply through absenteeism, shirking, and altering work-time patterns, depending on the … influence labor allocation and catalyze sectoral reallocation. Higher temperatures are also linked to increased migration. But …

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Gender and culture

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

country, the paper also confirms that several socio-economic factors such as female labor force participation, percent of the … ; Africa ; Asia …

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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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War and endogenous democracy

Ticchi, Davide (contributor); Vindigni, Andrea (contributor) - 2008

Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....

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Cross sections are history

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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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 …

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The role of historical resource constraints in modern gender inequality : a cross-country analysis

Hazarika, Gautam; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2014

We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that persist to this day. This thesis is supported by our finding that nations' historical resource endowments, as measured by the historical availability of arable land, are...

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