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To go or not to go : migration alleviates climate damages even for those who stay behind
Shayegh, Soheil; Casey, Greg P. - 2017
, focusing on the instrumental role of migration. In particular, we investigate how climate-induced migration in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753421
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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring … countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European … countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This is likely to dominate migration flows into the EU …
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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
determinants and human capital on migration and vice versa. The period under analysis is 2005-2019 and considers mobility from five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485454
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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in the screening of home rental applications conducted by Ecuadorian real estate agents (REAs). Given that Venezuelan migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546318
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Remoteness and unbalanced growth : understanding divergence across Indian districts
Das, Samarjit; Ghate, Chetan; Robertson, Peter E. - 2013
internal geographical trade and migration costs. We find evidence of conditional convergence for Indian districts but at a rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208649
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The CEPII gravity database
Conte, Maddalena; Cotterlaz, Pierre; Mayer, Thierry - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482195
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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic...
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The aggregate implications of size dependent distortions
Roys, Nicolas - 2016
This paper examines the aggregate implications of size-dependent distortions. These regulations misallocate labor across firms and hence reduce aggregate productivity. It then considers a case-study of labor laws in France where firms that have 50 employees or more face substantially more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585845
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585848
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Can hypothetical time discounting rates predict actual behaviour : evidence from a randomized experiment
Bonan, Jacopo; LeMay-Boucher, Philippe; Scott, Douglas - 2016 - This version: December 2016
This paper estimates time preference parameters using commonly-applied methodologies, with the aim of investigating the link between these measures and actual economic behaviour. An experiment was conducted in the city of Thies, in Senegal, using the unique reference numbers of banknotes as a...
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