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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
mechanisms proposed. Next the main linkages identified between migration and development – remittances, return migration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
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Financial development and TFP growth: Cross-country and industry-level evidence
Arizala, Francisco; Cavallo, Eduardo; Galindo, Arturo - 2009
This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using a largely unexploited panel of 77 countries with data for 26 manufacturing industries for the years 1963 to 2003. A significant relationship is found between financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278217
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Cointegrated TFP processes and international business cycles
Rabanal, Pau; Rubio-Ramirez, Juan Francisco; Tuesta, Vicente - 2009
A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that total factor productivity processes for the United States and the rest of the world are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292354
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The Taylor Rule: A Spurious Regression?
Österholm, Pär - 2003
processes, cointegration is a necessary condition both for consistent estimation of the parameters of the model and … compatibility between the model and the data. Tests find little support for cointegration and, together with an out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321545
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Cointegration and the stabilizing role of exchange rates
Alexius, Annika; Post, Erik - 2006
We show that empirical results concerning the behavior of floating exchange rates differ between otherwise identical cointegrated and non-cointegrated VAR models. In particular, virtually all ten-year movements in nominal exchange rates are due to fundamental supply and demand shocks when long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321604
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Testing for Cointegration in Misspecified Systems - A Monte Carlo Study of Size Distortions
Österholm, Pär - 2003
When dealing with time series that are integrated of order one, the concept of cointegration becomes crucial for the … misspecified. This paper investigates the small sample performance of four well-known cointegration tests when a system has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321641
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On the Causality Between Saving and Growth: Long- and Short-Run Dynamics and Country Heterogeneity
Andersson, Björn - 1999
The temporal interdependence between saving and output has been in focus in a number of recent empirical studies. Results from these studies have compelled some authors to question the traditional notion of a causal chain where saving leads growth through capital accumulation. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321740