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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the ?Natural Trading Partners? Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004
Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the ?natural trading partners? hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262129
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703120
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Settlement Location Shapes Refugee Integration: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Braun, Sebastian Till; Dwenger, Nadja - 2019
Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants affected their economic, social and political integration in West Germany. We first document large...
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Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?
Kigabo-Rusuhuzwa, Thomas; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
This paper investigates the East African Community (EAC) partner states' readiness for a common currency. It uses recent data to assess the impact of policy coordination in the region during the last seven years of East African Monetary Union's protocol implementation. Despite some similarities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351749
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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions: New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries
Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaïd, Fateh - 2023
This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
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The distribution of income in Central America
Gindling, Thomas; Trejos S., Juan Diego - 2013
We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central America, and one of the most equal distributions of income in Latin America. At the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293200
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Who remits? the case of Nicaragua
Naufal, George S. - 2007
In this paper I use a unique data set from Nicaragua to asses the behavior of persons who send money back home. I estimate a heteroskedastic Tobit with a known form of variance to estimate the correlation of the remitting decisions of migrants. Working, residing in a developed country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268241
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Why remit? The case of Nicaragua
Naufal, George S. - 2008
In the last two decades remittances have gained interest due to their large size. For several developing countries remittances constitute a large portion of their GDP and sometimes exceed FDI. While FDIs are usually profit driven, it is not clear what the driving force behind remittances is....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268782
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Single mothers and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H.; Oviedo, Luis - 2008
Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268845
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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and international emigration in this or any other region....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744640