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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
Rainer, Ilia - 2012
The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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Are Windfalls a Curse? A Non-Representative Agent Model of the Current Account and Fiscal Policy
Tornell, Aaron - 1994
In several countries temporary terms of trade improvements have led to a deterioration of the current account. Furthermore, many of these countries failed to attain greater post-boom growth rates. The point we make is that the structure of the fiscal process is critical in determining outcomes....
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Measuring Relative Poverty through Peer Rankings : Evidence from Côte D'Ivoire
Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Houeix, Deivy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate a method for eliciting relative poverty rankings that aggregates partial poverty rankings obtained from … reported by respondents and constructed aggregate rankings are poorly correlated with measures of poverty obtained from survey … data. Measuring relative poverty through peer rankings appears difficult in urban and periurban settings …
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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and...
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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities
Card, David - 2009
Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...
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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?
Card, David - 2005
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...
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The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets
LaLonde, Robert J. - 1990
This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the first ten years experience in the united States...
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Immigration in American Economic History
Abramitzky, Ran - 2016
The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This paper reviews the literatures on historical and...
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The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition
Peri, Giovanni - 2011
-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461088
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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire
Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants' employment, earnings, skills and behaviors. This paper evaluates...
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