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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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Fiscal Balance During Inflation, Disinflation, and Immigration : Policy Lessons
Razin, Assaf - 1996
The paper provides an overview of the role of the fiscal imbalances and the ensuing public debt in explaining major episodes in Israel’s recent economic developments. The main conclusions from the Israeli budgetary developments may have more general validity: (a) deficits lead to inflation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396318
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Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources : The Bolivian Family
Inchauste, Gabriela - 2001
Recognizing that intrahousehold inequalities exist, this study focuses on the distribution of resources toward children across household types. A bargaining framework is used to test whether it matters who has control over resources. Results show that control over resources matters, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403814
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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 marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170160
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Does Spousal Labor Smooth Fluctuations in Husbands' Earnings? : The Role of Liquidity Constraints
Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2004
This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the role of spousal labor in buffering transitory shocks to husbands'' earnings. To measure the amount of the shock that spousal labor absorbs, an instrumented cross-sectional variance decomposition is developed. Using data from the Panel...
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Regional labor market adjustments in the United States
Dao, Mai; Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash - 2014
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Regional labor mobility in Finland
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2018
This paper analyzes regional labor mobility in Finland using two complementary empirical approaches: a VAR proposed by Blanchard and Katz (1992) and a gravity model. The results point to a relatively limited regional labor mobility in Finland compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited...
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Regional labor mobility in Spain
Liu, Lucy Qian - 2018
This paper studies the main factors that explain the low regional mobility in Spain, with a view to identifying policy options at the regional and central level to promote labor mobility. The empirical analysis finds that house prices, labor market conditions, and the pervasiveness of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978683
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Family Attachment and the Decision to Move by Race
Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2002
characteristics that are usually associated with high rates of mobility: high unemployment, low rate of home ownership, low marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401361
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Internal Migration, Center-State Grants and Economic Growth in the States of India
Cashin, Paul - 1995
This paper examines the growth experience of twenty states of India during the period 1961-91, using cross-sectional estimation and the analytical framework of the Solow-Swan neoclassical growth model. We find evidence of absolute convergence--initially-poor states did indeed grow faster than...
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