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around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing …Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants … and gender composition of migrants, whether or not young migrants move alone or with a parent or spouse, their …
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Using household surveys for 24 countries over a 10-year period, this paper investigates why the elderly are more averse to open immigration policies than their younger peers. The analysis finds that the negative correlation between age and pro-immigration attitudes is mostly explained by a...
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Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income …
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This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international …
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Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are …
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The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …
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represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …
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Despite recent calls in support of cash transfers, there is little rigorous evidence of the relative impacts of cash versus in-kind transfers, especially in humanitarian contexts, where a majority of such programs take place. This paper uses data from a randomized experiment in the Democratic...
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