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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...

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Job mobility in Europe, Japan and the US

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2010

uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job … mobility within Europe. -- job mobility ; graduates ; Europe ; Japan ; US …

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Can intra-regional trade act as a global shock absorber in Africa?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Meng, Qingwei; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015

The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two regional economic communities - the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs...

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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union

Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020

This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...

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Trade and capital flows: substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation

Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...

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Trade, wages, and productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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Trade shocks and the provision of local public goods

Feler, Leo; Senses, Mine Zeynep - 2016

We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...

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Migrant networks and trade : the Vietnamese boat people as a natural experiment

Parsons, Christopher A.; Vézina, Pierre-Louis - 2016

We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between migrant networks and long-run economic development. To this end, we exploit a unique event in human history, i.e. the exodus of the Vietnamese Boat People to the US. This episode...

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Immigration and trade creation for the US : the role of immigrant occupation

Mundra, Kusum - 2012

This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the...

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