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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

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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The impact of immigration on international trade : a meta-analysis

Genç, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

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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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470405

A cross-country study of union membership

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines changes in unionization that have occurred over the last decade or so using individual level micro data on twenty seven of the thirty OECD countries, with particular emphasis on Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Micro-data is also used to model union...

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The wage curve reloaded

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper provides evidence for the existence of a wage curve - a micro-econometric association between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other countries, the wage curve in the United States has a long-run...

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International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...

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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …

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Wellbeing rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …

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