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Molloy, Raven - 2011

We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...

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The Determinants of China's International Portfolio Equity Allocations

Agarwal, Isha - 2020

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows … enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant impact on global financial markets as China continues to open up its … foreign portfolio allocations, Chinese IIs overweight sectors in which China has a comparative disadvantage. Moreover, Chinese …

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The Coming Wave : Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?

Karolyi, George Andrew - 2015

We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...

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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021

Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...

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Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries

Messina, Julian - 2011

This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is...

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Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations

Ascari, Guido - 2009

This paper analyzes the cost of disinflations under real wage rigidities in a micro-founded New Keynesian model. The consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the standard Calvo model. Real wage rigidities thus generate...

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When Credit Dries Up : Job Losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel - 2013

We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked differences in banks' health at the onset of the Great Recession. Several weak banks were rescued by the State and they reduced credit more than other banks. We compare...

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The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions

Macunovich, Diane - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …

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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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