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, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …
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We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin … communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to …
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Domestic mobility restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 are widespread in developing countries, and have trapped millions of migrant workers in hotspot cities. We show that bans can increase cumulative infections relative to a counterfactual sans restrictions. A SEIR model shows bans’...
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Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the...
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distribution. We test and confirm these implications using a survey of recent immigrants into Canada. We develop a simple …
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migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the … wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International …
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on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early … earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives. In the decade after …
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several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …
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Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas …
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This paper has two goals: first to describe a theoretical model which derives relationships among migration decisions … explicitly from utility maximization under uncertainty; and second, to examine why nations vary in their internal migration. To … explain variation in internal migration, we hypothesize that the degree of monetization and industrialization of an economy is …
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