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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...

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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...

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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books

Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015

, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict … costs the equivalent of a 50% drop in GDP per year in terms of subjective wellbeing. Public debt, on the other hand, has a …

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...

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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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