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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for...
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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps : A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014
In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...
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The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Organized Crime Organizations : A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
estimation approach (MIMIC procedure). The figures show that Al Qaeda and other terror organizations have sufficient financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145188
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320572
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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Kugler, Maurice - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
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Trade and Capital Flows : Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019
estimated coefficient is most pronounced for foreign direct investment, in line with theories stressing informational frictions …. Robustness checks in the form of different estimation methods, alternative proxies for capital flows and sample splits confirm …
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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources : Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics
López, Ramón - 2010
Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143683
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A Gravity Model of Migration between Enc and EU
Ramos, Raul - 2013
Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit of legal and illegal migration towards Europe. Their economic, cultural...
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012
distortions. I document major trends in aggregate savings, investment, trade, and net foreign asset positions in China, and …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …
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