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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012

the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …

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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Frick, Joachim R. - 2009

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...

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Foreign Capital and Economic Growth

Prasad, Eswar S.; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positive correlation between current...

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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 to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the...

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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Marchiori, Luca - 2013

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration

Dustmann, Christian - 2011

This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings … and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the … home- and host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between immigrants …

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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

Robalino, David A. - 2011

characteristic are correlated with more job opportunities. Policy simulations ten suggest that the risk pooling and savings component …

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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...

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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Ge, Suqin - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households : More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Apps, Patricia F. - 2012

The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...

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