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Trade and Agglomeration: the Strategic use of Protection Revisited

Thede, Susanna - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the strategic motive for protection present in trade and agglomeration … agglomeration industry. We first investigate unilateral trade policy effects on the international production and trade pattern and … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The …

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Spoils of war: Trade shocks and segmented labor markets in Spain during WWI

Fuchs, Simon - 2021

How does intranational factor mobility shape the welfare effects of a trade shock? I provide evidence that during WWI, a demand shock emanated from belligerent countries and affected neutral Spain. Within Spain, labor predominantly reallocated locally, while the most affected provinces...

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Immigration, remittances, and business cycles

Mandelman, Federico S.; Zlate, Andrei - 2012

Using data on border enforcement and macroeconomic indicators from the United States and Mexico, we estimate a two-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and documents the insurance role of remittances in...

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Crude substitution: The cyclical dynamics of oil prices and the skill premium

Polgreen, Linnea; Silos, Pedro - 2008

Higher oil-price shocks benefit unskilled workers relative to skilled workers: At the business-cycle frequency, energy prices and the skill premia display a strong, negative correlation. We assess the robustness of this negative correlation using several methods and data sources, including...

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Task specialization, immigration, and wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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Rethinking the gains from immigration: theory and evidence from the US

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2005

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...

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The effects of immigration on California's labor market

Peri, Giovanni - 2006

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It also received a very large number of Mexican and uneducated immigrants during the recent decades. If immigration harms the labor...

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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare

Sarpça, Sinan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Yilmaz, Kuzey - 2010

A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...

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RICE-MED, an integrated assessment model for the Mediterranean basin: assessing the climate-economy-agriculture nexus

Castelli, Chiara; Castellini, Marta; Gusperti, Camilla; … - 2023

In this work we update the regionalization and the calibration of the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE) in its 1999 version developed by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), with a focus on the Mediterranean countries. Our aim is to assess the impact of climate change...

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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005

Peri, Giovanni - 2009

A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one needs to consider national effects by skill level. The criticism to the so called „area approach“ is based on the fact that native workers are mobile and would eliminate, in the...

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