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Stranded! How Rising Inequality Suppressed Us Migration and Hurt Those Left Behind

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2019

Using bilateral data on migration across US metro areas, we find strong evidence that increasing house price and income inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more prosperous location, lower mobility is driven by...

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How Do Migration and Remittances Affect Inequality? A Case Study of Mexico

Koczan, Zsoka - 2018

The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the receiving side. It hopes to speak to their insurance role by...

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The Labor Market Integration of Migrants in Europe : New Evidence from Micro Data

Ho, Giang - 2018

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates … substantial heterogeneity in the patterns of labor market integration across host countries and by migrant gender and origin. Our … has implications for the design of effective integration policies …

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The Impact of International Migration on Inclusive Growth : A Review

Koczan, Zsoka; Peri, Giovanni; Pinat, Magali; Rozhkov, … - 2022

International migration is an important channel of material improvement for individuals and their offspring. The movement of people across country borders, especially from less developed to richer countries, has a substantial impact in several dimensions. First, it affects the migrants...

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Northern Triangle Undocumented Migration to the United States

Carare, Alina; Koh, Catherine; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - 2023

Undocumented migration from the Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) to the United States has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years, accelerating at times. The paper investigates what factors could explain this fact, by estimating an investment decision...

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Comparing the Employment-Output Elasticities of Expatriates and Nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Behar, Alberto - 2015

We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment response is lower for nationals, who have an...

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Some Lessons from Asian E-Money Schemes for the Adoption of Central Bank Digital Currency

Sun, Tao; Rizaldy, Ryan - 2023

This paper synthesizes four lessons from the experiences of six Asian e-money schemes for central banks as they consider adopting central bank digital currency (CBDC): (i) CBDC should embody four attributes: trust, convenience, efficiency, and security; (ii) CBDC service providers can facilitate...

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A Requiem for the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Farmer, Roger - 2019

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) is the claim that, in a popular class of theoretical models, the price level is sometimes determined by fiscal policy rather than monetary policy. The models where this claim has been established assume that all decisions are made by an...

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Job Polarization and the Declining Fortunes of the Young : Evidence from the United Kingdom

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2019

This paper uses a life-cycle framework to document new stylized facts about the nexus between job polarization and earnings inequality. Using quarterly labor force data for the UK over the period 2000-2018, we find clear life-cycle profiles in the probability of being employed within each...

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Multiple Dimensions of Human Development Index and Public Social Spending for Sustainable Development

Paliova, Iana - 2019

Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) - standard of living, education and health, and their...

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