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Tax Burden and Migration : A Political Economy Perspective
Sadka, Efraim - 1997
The extent of taxation and redistribution policy is generally determined at a political-economy equilibrium by a balance between those who gain and those who lose from a more extensive tax-transfer policy. In a stylized model of migration and human capital formation, we find, somewhat against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403302
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Debt, investment, and growth in developing countries with segmented labor markets
Buffie, Edward F.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Adam, Christopher S. - 2020
We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252029
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Commodity price volatility and the sources of growth
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424700
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Investment, Capital Accumulation, and Growth : Some Evidence From the Gambia 1964-1998
Beddies, Christian H. - 1999
endogenous growth-type model. The impact of private investment—and thus private capital accumulation—on output is large and … significant. Furthermore, increases in public investment boost output substantially. Finally, the effects associated with human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400640
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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396933
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The impact of international migration on inclusive growth : a review
Koczan, Zsoka; Peri, Giovanni; Pinat, Magali; Rozhkov, … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518988
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Stranded! : how rising inequality suppressed US migration and hurt those “left behind”
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Barkema, Jelle - 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; Loyola, Franz C. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866480
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The labor market integration of migrants in Europe : new evidence from micro data
Ho, Giang; Turk Ariss, Rima - 2018
This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates how successfully migrants integrate in 13 European countries by applying a unified framework to analyze a rich micro dataset with over ten million individuals surveyed between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932485
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Determinants of Emigrant Deposits in Cape Verde
International Monetary Fund - 2006
In the last decade Cape Verde has experienced a strong accumulation of emigrant deposits. These deposits have provided much needed foreign exchange to the country, adding support to the exchange rate peg. This paper studies the long-run determinants of emigrant deposits with respect to risk,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400380