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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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On the Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Illegal Immigration
Liu, Xiangbo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the macroeconomic and welfare effects of illegal immigration on the native born within a … postwar U.S. economy. The model predicts that in the long run illegal immigration is a boon, but the employment opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999186
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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950369
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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth: Empirical Evidence from Greece
Chletsos, Michael; Roupakias, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for … Fund Database (IMF). Our results provide empirical evidence that the growth rates of GDP and unemployment cause migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260398
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"Give me your Tired, your Poor," so I can Prosper: Immigration in Search Equilibrium
Chassamboulli, Andri; Palivos, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the impact of immigration on the host country within a search and matching model that allows for skill … although immigration raises the overall welfare,it may have distributional effects. Specifically, skilled workers gain in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223346
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Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish Labor Market
Antón, José-Ignacio; Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment … former, the larger unemployment rate of female migrants is not explained by observable characteristics. In the case of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596385
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A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Effects of Immigration on Labor Market Outcomes
Chassamboulli, Andri; Palivos, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We analyze the impact of the skill-biased immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2009 in the United … that although the skill-biased immigration raised the overall net income to natives, it may have had distributional effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108231
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Immigration Policy and Macroeconomic Performances in France
d'Albis, Hippolyte; Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and the unemployment rate, and permanent immigration in France over the period 1994-2008. It uses a new database where … immigration. In addition, family immigration from non-OECD countries reduces unemployment. Moreover, GDP per capita increases … immigration while the unemployment rate reduces labor migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111962
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The impact of immigration on the greek labor market
Chletsos, Michael; Roupakias, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
indigenous workers. Also, there is evidence that: (i) medium skilled unemployment declines with immigration and (ii) labor force … the unemployment rates of natives. We use information on 13 local labor markets for the 1988-2008 period. The data are … participation rises due to immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258440
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The Effect of Compressed Demographic Transition and Demographic Gift on Economic Growth
Shin, Inyong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, we examine the demographic transition and its effect on economic growth using a cross-country data. We use a threshold regression model to verify the transition and to confirm whether the demographic transitions are compressed or not in developing countries. We found out that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114542