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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Qian, Nancy - 2014
Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that rich countries use for helping poor countries to improve population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional development. The empirical evidence on its benefits is mixed and has generated much controversy. This paper presents...
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...
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The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World'S Demographic Transition
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021
developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …
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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021
We examine the effects of aid on growth in cross-sectional and panel data—after correcting for the possible bias that poorer (or stronger) growth may draw aid contributions to recipient countries. Even after this correction, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative)...
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The Economic Effect of Immigration Policies : Analyzing and Simulating the U.S. Case
Chassamboulli, Andri - 2018
In this paper we analyze the economic effects of different immigration policies using a model that incorporates economic and policy features crucial to understanding the migrant flows into the US. We differentiate among the most relevant channels of immigration to the US: family-based,...
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Computerization and Immigration : Theory and Evidence from the United States
Basso, Gaetano - 2017
Recent technological changes have been characterized as “routine-substituting,” reducing demand for routine tasks but increasing it for analytical and service tasks. Little is known about how these changes have impacted immigration, or task specialization between immigrants and natives. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945606
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Free vs. Controlled Migration : Bilateral Country Study
Razin, Assaf - 2011
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129125
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Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2012
Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth...
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People Flows in Globalization
Freeman, Richard B. - 2010
, the dispersion of pay for similarly skilled workers around the world exceeds the dispersion of the prices of goods and …
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since …. The projections imply that pressure on Third World emigration over the next two decades will not increase. It also …
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