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, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high … should be directed towards emigration. Using a new dataset on migration flows by education levels for the period 1990 …-2000, the results show the following: First, immigration had zero to small positive long-run effect on the average wages of …
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address these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category … of New Zealand?s immigration policy. They survey applicants to the 2002-05 ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for the … immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument to address the …
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highly skilled across age groups. Immigration plays a relatively minor role, except in a handful of open countries, like … Australia and Canada, where it accentuates the wage-equalizing impact of ageing and education. Emigration is the only …
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To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
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The paths of many migrants include multiple destinations and transit routes, yet this pattern is almost never reflected in empirical analyses. For example, 9 percent of recent immigrants to the United States arrived from a transit country as opposed to the country where they were born. Among...
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This paper aims at assessing the impact of migration on export performance and more particularly the effect of African migrants on African trade. Relying on a new data set on international bilateral migration recently released by the World Bank spanning from 1980 to 2010, the authors estimate a...
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Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin America for the period 2001-2012. The investigation compares deforestation rates inside and …
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supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …
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This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
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This paper examines the impact of the quality of the business environment as well as the monitoring capacity of the tax agency on firms' tax evasion and production decisions. First, the paper uses firm-level data for 30 African and Latin American countries to show that tax evasion and...
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