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We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration …
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How migration relates to internationalization has been a prominent question in international economics for a long time … and its relevance for policy has increased with the amplified political focus on migration. But the role of migration for … internationalization is not as obvious as the standard theory suggests, and tightening migration could have unexpected consequences for …
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outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high … associated with the fall of the Iron Curtain, indeed stimulate outsourcing to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and … second, that outsourcing to these countries significantly shifts relative employment in favour of high- skilled labour. …
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Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist die Behauptung, dass der migrationspolitische Diskurs zu wenig auf die internationale Integration von Gütermärkten Bedacht nimmt. Die Debatte wird weitgehend arbeitsmarktökonomisch geführt, wobei der sogenannte immigration surplus für das Zuwanderungsland und...
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of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …
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Following the 1978 economic reforms, China gradually became first amongst developing countries and the second in the world, after the USA, in terms of stock of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Sustained GDP growth, a high rate of capital return and brisk economic development made China...
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654461
We document a slowdown in low-skilled immigration that began around the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with a subsequent rise in low-skilled wages, a decline in the skill premium, and labor shortages in service occupations. Falling returns to education also coincided...
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This paper explores the features of a dynamic multisectoral model which focuses on the relationship between income distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income...
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