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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest : evidence from the Pacific

Gibson, John K. (contributor); … - 2009

A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....

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Trade, FDI, migration, and the place premium : Mexico and the United States

Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy; Robertson, Raymond - 2015

Large wage differences between countries ("place premiums") are well documented. Theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased migration, capital flows, and commercial integration. All three have increased between the United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This...

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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...

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Three new empirical tests of the pollution haven hypothesis when environmental regulation is endogenous

Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Jayjit - 2011

The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...

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Beyond EU-US trade dynamics : TTIP effects related to foreign direct investment and innovation

Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and...

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Refugees and foreign direct investment : quasi-experimental evidence from U.S. resettlements

Mayda, Anna Maria; Parsons, Christopher R.; Han Pham; … - 2019

We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we first leverage the quasi-random distribution of...

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The yen exchange rate and the hollowing out of the Japanese industry

Belke, Ansgar; Volz, Ulrich - 2019

Since the demise of the Bretton Woods system, the yen has seen several episodes of strong appreciation, including in the late 1970s, after the 1985 Plaza Agreement, the early and late 1990s and after 2008. These appreciations have not only been associated with "expensive yen recessions"...

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Foreign capital and economic growth

Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor); … - 2007

We document the recent phenomenon of "uphill" flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positive correlation between current...

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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and pacific supply

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2021

How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...

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Long-term employment and job security over the last twenty-five years : a comparative study of Japan and the US

Kanbayashi, Ryō; Kato, Takao - 2011

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …

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