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stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively …
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We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an …
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cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and …
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China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on wages, wage spillovers, and employment. We … significant but very small wage spillovers for those whose wages are just above the new minimum wage, but they are effectively …
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We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …
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America – specifically South America and Mexico (SAM) – and East Asia, over the 32 years preceding the Great Recession (1976 … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia – SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …'s ETG to East Asia's level raises TFP by over 100 percent and fully accounts for its TFP gap with East Asia; and iv) South …
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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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gains in manufacturing. In addition, this is the first article to investigate the possibility of spillovers from offshoring … spillovers from materials offshoring in manufacturing in the data, which suggests that most firms effectively manage to …
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This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum … spillovers to workers without a binding minimum wage may result from scale effects and/or capital-labour substitution …
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This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax-induced migration on state revenues, excess burden, and fiscal...
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