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Specialization and the Volume of Trade : Do the Data Obey the Laws?
Harrigan, James - 2021
The core subjects of trade theory are the pattern and volume of trade: which goods are traded by which countries, and how much of those goods are traded. The first part of the paper discusses evidence on comparative advantage, with an emphasis on carefully connecting theory models to data...
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Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants
Hunt, Jennifer - 2021
I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2000. I highlight the prevalence and distinctive characteristics of migrants who do not change employers. Same-employer migrants represent one fifth of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218746
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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions
Kennan, John; Walker, James R. - 2021
The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions (rather than a single once-for-all choice), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240935
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Dark Costs, Missing Data : Shedding Some Light on Services Trade
Anderson, James E. - 2015
A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to flexibly infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015559
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Borders, Trade and Welfare
Anderson, James E.; van Wincoop, Eric - 2021
International economic integration yields large potential welfare effects, even in a static constant returns competitive world economy. Our method is novel. The effect of border barriers on trade flows is often inferred from gravity models. But their rather atheoretic structure precludes welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234364
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2010
of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134804
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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
Cohen, Alon - 2010
The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants under free migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758239
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Battisti, Michele - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053843
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The Gravity Model
Anderson, James E. - 2010
gravity into recent practice has led to a richer and more accurate estimation and interpretation of the spatial relations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135403
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Gravity, Scale and Exchange Rates
Anderson, James E. - 2013
We develop a structural gravity model that introduces scale effects in bilateral trade. Scale effects and incomplete passthrough give two channels through which exchange rates have real effects on trade patterns. Estimates from Canadian provincial trade data identify these effects through their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086673