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in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact …) employment allocation between informal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The direction of …
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German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage …-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
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Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between child...
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environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance … to electricity are found to explain a significant part of the lack of employment growth in MENA firms compared to their …
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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …
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Economic Citizenship Programs (ECPs) have recently been proliferating, with large and potentially volatile inflows of investment and fiscal revenues generating significant benefits for small economies, but also posing substantial challenges. This paper discusses recent developments and...
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UK economy to the postaccession surge in immigration. Simulations show that immigration is likely to have positive …
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and mid-1990s. Using a system of equations for unemployment, labor-force participation, the real wage, and the immigration … that of an increase in domestic labor-force participation. The composition of immigration flows matters, and the proportion …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU''s New Member States (NMS). The paper focuses on cross-border mobility of labor and examines the implications for policymakers with the help of a general equilibrium model. It finds that cross-border labor...
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