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Oceanic Travel Conditions and American Immigration, 1890-1914
Keeling, Drew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
preceeding the First World War, were significantly constrained by shipping lines’ capacity considerations. The improvements had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260517
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Immigration and Economic Growth: Do Origin and Destination Matter?
Kang, Youngho; Kim, Byung-Yeon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper assesses the heterogeneous effects of immigration on economic growth depending on both the origin and the …. We find that immigration from developed economies positively affects the economic growth of the host countries …. Furthermore, the growth-enhancing effect of immigration is significantly larger when immigration flows from developed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257906
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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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I flussi migratori Le migrazioni di transito nel Mediterraneo
Venditto, Bruno; Caruso, Immacolata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper considers the new concept of transit Migration using the migration movements which occur in the Mediterranean basin as a case to analyse the phenomenon. The viewpoints of both the countries where the transit migrants first arrive and sojourn and that of the countries of final...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401356
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Immigration in Italy: An overview
Venditto, Bruno; Caruso, Immacolata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
, mirror a world context which is marked by imbalances both in terms of growth and welfare. A correct analysis of migration, of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835515
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ENDOGENOUS GROWTH AND GAINS FROM SKILLED IMMIGRATION
Mideksa, Torben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A previous result by Kemnitz (2001) based on AK type endogenous growth model implied that the gains from immigration … Romer (1991), it is shown that immigration entails Pareto improvement even when immigrants posses no physical capital in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836668
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The Romanian Journal of European Studies No.4/2005
Geiger, Martin; Ruspini, Paolo; Baldwin-Edwards, Martin; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Romanian Journal of European Studies No.4/2005 ISSN 1583 - 199X EUV - Editura Universitatii de Vest, Timisoara, 2005 The British Coucil in Bucharest and The School of High Comparative European Studies (SISEC), within the West University of Timisoara, edited The Romanian Journal of European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623434
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Remittances, Migration and Informality in Mexico. A Simple Model
Brambila Macias, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper, we analyse the possible channels through which informality, remittances and migration could interact and consequently affect growth in Mexico. In order to do so, we develop a simple endogenous growth model that allows for remittances and the coexistence of the formal and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835875
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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596361
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Morality, institutions and economic growth: Lessons from ancient Greece
Bitros, George; Karayiannis, Anastassios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We show that the character and the morality of citizens are important ingredients of economic growth because they go hand in hand with the great institutions of private property, democ-racy, and free markets. Our approach enables us to establish this result by reference to the structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789812