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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth

Bloom, David E. - 2002

Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...

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Changes in the Structure of Family Income Inequality in the United States and Other Industrial Nationa During the 1980s

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1994

We examine the detailed structure of family income inequality in the United States, Canada, and Australia at various points during the 1980s. In each of these countries we find that income inequality increased among married couple families and that the increases are closely associated with...

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The Distribution of Family Income : Measuring and Explaining Changes in the 1980s for Canada and the United States

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1991

This paper attempts to measure and explain recent changes in the distributions of family income in Canada and the U.S. using comparable micro-data for the two countries for 1979 and 1987. Three main sets of conclusions are reached. First, the distributions of total family income (pre-tax,...

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The Effects of Technological Change on Earnings and Income Inequality inthe United States

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1987

This paper explores the relationship between technological change and inequality in the U.S. since the late 1960's. The analysis focuses primarily on studying patterns and trends in the dispersion of various distributions of earnings and income during this recent period of rapid technological...

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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development

Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2006

peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …

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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome

De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts : A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from … other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on …

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Channeling Remittances to Education : A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …

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Savings in Transnational Households : A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador

Ashraf, Nava - 2014

-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …

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