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How Deep is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
Krebs, Oliver - 2015
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...
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Equipping Immigrants : Migration Flows and Capital Movements
Lange, Fabian; Gollin, Douglas - 2021
Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317118
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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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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David J. - 2012
We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP shocks at destination, but no significant wage...
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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Borjas, George J. - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...
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Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives …. On average, the supply shock leads to a moderate decline in local native wages and a sharp decline in local native …
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Temporary International Migration, Shocks and Informal Insurance : Analysis Using Panel Data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration … trade-off between two effects of a shock for a household: loss of income and increase in the need of labor services. We show … that migration increases when the former effect of a shock dominates, it reduces when the latter effect dominates. We …
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How Do Firms Adjust to Negative Labor Supply Shocks? Evidence from Migration Outflows
Dicarlo, Emanuele - 2022
The quality of workers in a country positively relates to productivity of firms, adoption of new technologies, and growth. This paper studies adjustments of Italian firms to negative labor supply shocks in the context of workers' outflows from Italy to Switzerland. My diff-in-diff leverages the...
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Economic Shocks and Internal Migration
Monras, Joan - 2015
Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that geographic relocation does not help mitigate negative local economic shocks during recessions. This paper shows that this is not the case. I document that net in-migration rates...
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law
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