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underlying the accumulation of flows. The study suggests that the temporary character of recent emigration is responsible for the …
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benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due to emigration to OECD member countries. The … force with more than 12 years of completed schooling-among the highest emigration rates in the world. The region is also the …
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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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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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This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact … in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii … the impact depends on the degree of complementarity between immigrants and native workers' skills. Immigration is found to …
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percentage points, with migrants to Europe hardest hit while migrants within Africa relatively unaffected by the crisis. The …Using data on the distribution of migrants from Africa, GDP growth forecasts for host countries, and after estimating …
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This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates …
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This paper considers two empirical questions about tax incentives: (1) are incentives used as tools of tax competition and (2) how effective are incentives in attracting investment? To answer these, we prepared a new dataset of tax incentives in over 40 Latin American, Caribbean and African...
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thesequestions looking at the experiences of Europe, which has a rich civil society tradition, as well as of Latin America, which …
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Europe for the period 1970–94 by means of an error-components model that decomposes real value added growth in each country …
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