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Does an inclusive citizenship law promote economic development?
Imam, Patrick; Kpodar, Kangni - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting the main features of jus soli, jus sanguinis as well as mixed regimes, and shedding light on the channels through which they could have...
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The Art of Making Everybody Happy : How to Prevent a Secession
Le Breton, Michel - 2001
In this paper we consider a model of the country with heterogeneous population and examine compensation schemes that may prevent a threat of secession by dissatisfied regions. We show that horizontal imbalances are combatable with secession-proof compensation schemes that entail a degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399596
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Inequality and locational determinants of the distribution of living standards in India
Balasubramanian, Sriram; Dhir, Rishabh Kumar; Loungani, … - 2021
economic migration from rural to urban areas within a fast-growing emerging economy. While individuals cannot easily alter …
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Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia : the gravity model
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2020
Remitances are an important source of external financing in low- and middle-income countries. This paper uses the gravity model to analyze remittance flows in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries. Standard gravity determinants, such as GDP in sending and recieiving countries,...
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The macroeconomic costs of conflict
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2020
Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines...
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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 … dominate the incentives from higher earnings. By contrast, increasing income inequality drives the fall in downhill migration …
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China’s labor market in the “new normal”
Lam, W. Raphael; Liu, Xiaoguang; Schipke, Alfred - 2015
As China implements reforms under the "new normal," maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth slows,...
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Are African Households Heterogeneous Agents? : Stylized Facts on Patterns of Consumption, Employment, Income and Earnings for Macroeconomic Modelers
Fox, Louise - 2015
This paper reviews the evidence on how households in Sub-Saharan Africa segment along consumption, income and earning dimensions relevant for quantitative macroeconomic policy models which incorporate heterogeneity. Key findings include the importance of home-grown food in the income and...
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“Fiscal devaluation” and fiscal consolidation : the VAT in troubled times
Mooij, Ruud A. de; Keen, Michael - 2012
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