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migration that might have been sparked by such significant economic and social changes. Overall, the results suggest that …
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examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …
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functions. Using this definition we identify thirty-nine relevant studies that use either migration or regional economic models … or hedonic pricing techniques. One result from the analysis of migration and regional economic studies is that intra …
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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 origin countries making specific attempts at incorporating migration …
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Late 19th century investors demanded compensation to invest in countries with poor institutional protection of property rights. Using the monthly stock returns of 1,808 firms located in 43 countries but traded in London between 1866 and 1907, we estimate the country-specific cost of capital. We...
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We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power of economic institutions, we use newer data, we incorporate more countries, and we use instrumental variables to handle the causality problem. A central result is that legal...
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We suggest a full consolidation approach that takes into account the property rights structure whithin the subsidiaries, in particular, the majority requirements on restructurings. Our approach employs a property rights index based on cooperative game theory.
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We study a laboratory social dilemma game in which incentives to steal from others lead to the socially inefficient diversion of resources from production unless the members of a given mini-society can abide by norms of non-theft or engage in low cost collective protection of their members'...
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We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analyses of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the property rights approach that emphasizes the centrality of ownership's legal rights to control important, nonhuman assets of...
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This paper extends the Grossman-Hart-Moore model to suite a specific trilateral trade transaction. In this transaction a downstream producer produces the final good using inputs from two different upstream suppliers. Moreover one of the upstream supplier needs an input from the other upstream...
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