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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...

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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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Long-term changes in married couples' labor supply and taxes : evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? : a comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2018

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …

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Stalled racial progress and Japanese trade in the 1970s and 1980s

Batistich, Mary Kate; Bond, Timothy N. - 2019

late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the …

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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization - innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of the medieval world. It comes at a time when...

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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa

Naudé, Wim - 2017

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....

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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future

Naudé, Wim - 2019

This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is concerned, African countries will in differing degrees...

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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?

Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019

In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...

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