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There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
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substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for …
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substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for …
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We examine economic activity in a large virtual economy which was designed to allow decentralized barter as the sole exchange institution. We find that a small subset of goods emerges endogenously which act of media of exchange. Our analysis includes estimation of spot exchange rates between...
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taxation and is associated with intangible FDI inflows. The two models achieve demand, output, and income growth via … foreign direct investment (FDI): the "export platform FDI-led" growth model and the "tax haven FDI-led" growth model. The … fundamentally different channels yet appear similarly export-led given how profit shifting artificially inflates the net exports of …
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This paper discusses the estimation of a social accounting matrix that distinguishes between formal and informal activities for China and India for 2000 and 1998-99 respectively. Wage shares for the formal/informal employment for China and net domestic product shares for the formal/informal...
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Japan, and the monetary and inflation consequences of Japanese policies. In Malaya, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines … inflation, hyperinflation hardly occurred because of a sustained transactions demand for money, because of Japan's strong …
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microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …
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In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...
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The paper studies the demand for foreign university graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment … policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile highly skilled employees … of firms recruiting internationally. A number of hypotheses for the international demand are formulated and assessed …
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