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Immigration in Iceland : Addressing challenges and unleashing the benefits
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2023
Immigration has increased rapidly since the late 1990s, driven largely by strong economic growth and high standards of … addressed through a comprehensive approach, helping to make the most of immigration. Successful labour market integration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014491294
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International Migration: The Relationship with Economic and Policy Factors in the Home and Destination Country
Westmore, Ben - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Unfavourable demographic trends in many OECD countries threaten the sustainability of potential labour resources, GDP growth and fiscal positions. One factor that is expected to mitigate these trends is continued inflows of migrant workers from low income economies. However, a rapid catch-up in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276967
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Migration, housing and regional disparities: A gravity model of inter-regional migration with an application to selected OECD countries
Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2021
Inter-regional migration – the movements of the population from one region to another within the same country – can be an important mechanism of spatial economic adjustment, affecting regional demographic and growth patterns. This paper examines the economic and housing-related factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801178
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Trends in Immigration and Economic Consequences
Coppel, Jonathan - 2001
This paper reviews immigration trends and their economic impacts in a number of OECD countries. While migration systems … migration flows. Some of the main factors driving immigration are then briefly discussed. The paper also considers the economic …, fiscal and social implications of immigration. The study suggests that immigration can confer small net gains to the host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444502
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Enhancing the Globalisation of Korea
Jones, Randall S.; Yoon, Taesik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Globalisation through foreign direct investment (FDI), international trade and international movements of labour is a key force driving economic growth. Although Korea has become more integrated in the world economy over the past decade, it still ranks low in terms of import penetration, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045802
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Strengthening the Integration of Japan in the World Economy to Benefit more Fully from Globalisation
Jones, Randall S.; Yoon, Taesik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
Globalisation through international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and international movements of labour is a key force driving economic growth. However, Japan is an outlier among OECD countries, with the lowest levels of import penetration, stock of inward FDI relative to GDP and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046254
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Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries? : Evidence from Pooled Mean-Group Estimates
Bassanini, Andrea - 2001
This paper presents empirical estimates of human-capital augmented growth equations for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1971-98. It uses an improved dataset on human capital and a novel econometric technique that reconciles growth model assumptions with the needs of panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444192
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Solow or Lucas?: Testing Growth Models Using Panel Data from OECD Countries
Arnold, Jens - 2007
In this paper, we test whether the growth experience of a sample of OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the human-capital augmented Solow model of exogenous growth, or with an endogenous growth model à la Uzawa-Lucas with constant returns to scale to “broad”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446905
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Implicit Regulatory Barriers in the EU Single Market : New Empirical Evidence from Gravity Models
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Domps, Aurore; Gorin, Yae͏̈lle; … - 2015
Gravity models are used to explore the determinants of trade, making use of fixed effect linear estimators and a Poisson estimator (as in Santos Silva and Tenreyro, 2006) with fixed effects. Beyond usual determinants of trade such as GDP, distance, contiguity, free trade areas and language, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012449777
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The impact of COVID-19 on corporate fragility in the United Kingdom: Insights from a new calibrated firm-level Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model
Barnes, Sebastian - 2021
Covid-19 and the associated restrictions on interaction have led to an unprecedented shock to activity and firms’ balance sheets. To assess the impact, this paper applies a new large-scale firm-level simulation model calibrated to the United Kingdom (UK). The paper specifically examines the...
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