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investigates the ways in which international student migration relates to trade. Unlike other immigrants, international students …
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This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate … student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one …
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Although urban growth historically depended on large inflows of migrants, little is known of the process of migration … and male migration. We supplement these with data on all women and men buried in 1833. Migration was highest from areas of … high living standards, measured by literacy rates. Distance was a strong deterrent to female migration (reflecting limited …
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College graduates tend to earn more than non-graduates but it is difficult to ascertain how much of this empirical association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved factors that influence both wages and education (e.g....
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One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...
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In 2005, China abated its fixed exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and began to appreciate the Renminbi (RMB). In this paper, I explore the effect of the appreciation of the RMB on imports to the U.S. from China by augmenting the gravity model with the exchange rate. Using an industrial panel...
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