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Immigration and wage dynamics in Germany
Klinger, Sabine; Musayev, Anvar; Natal, Jean-Marc; … - 2019
-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155220
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The intensive margin in trade
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Klenow, Peter J.; Meleshchuk, … - 2018
trade flows and welfare in the estimated model. The welfare effects turn out to be quite close to those in the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978438
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The African Continental Free Trade Agreement : welfare gains estimates from a general equilibrium model
Abrego, Lisandro E.; Amado, Maria Alejandra; Gursoy, Tunc; … - 2019
Rodriguez-Clare (2014), we estimate the welfare effects of the AfCFTA for 45 countries in Africa. Three different model … welfare gains from trade liberalization in Africa. As intra-regional import tariffs in the continent are already low, the bulk … specifications used, with considerable variation of potential welfare gains across countries in all model structures …
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Does child marriage matter for growth?
Mitra, Pritha; Pondi Endengle, Eric M.; Pant, Malika; … - 2020
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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Debt, investment, and growth in developing countries with segmented labor markets
Buffie, Edward F.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Adam, Christopher S. - 2020
policymakers' social discount rate and on the weight of distributional objectives in the social welfare function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252029
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Social programs and formal employment : evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program
Fruttero, Anna; Leichsenring, Alexandre Ribeiro; Paiva, … - 2020
Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252007
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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries
Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...
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Firm-level data and monetary policy : the case of a middle-income country
Bounader, Lahcen; Doukali, Mohamed - 2019
We test the existence of the balance sheet channel of monetary policy in a middle-income country. Firm-level data scarcity and quality, in such a context, make the identification of this channel a steep challenge. To circumvent this challenge, we use panel instrumental variables estimation with...
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The more the merrier? : a machine learning algorithm for optimal pooling of panel data
Bolhuis, Marijn A.; Rayner, Brett - 2020
We leverage insights from machine learning to optimize the tradeoff between bias and variance when estimating economic models using pooled datasets. Specifically, we develop a simple algorithm that estimates the similarity of economic structures across countries and selects the optimal pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251287
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Too much of a good thing? : prudent management of inflows under economic citizenship programs
Xu, Xin; El-Ashram, Ahmed; Gold, Judith - 2015
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