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Growth, political instability and the defense burden

Blomberg, S. Brock - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1994

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A simple model of conflicting horizons

Blomberg, S. Brock - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1994

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Politics and exchange rate forecasts

Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - 1996

Standard exchange rate models perform poorly in out-of-sample forecasting when compared to the random walk model. We posit part of the poor performance of these models may be due to omission of political factors. We test this hypothesis by including political variables that capture...

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A model of voter choice in a life cycle setting

Blomberg, S. Brock - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1994

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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365

Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...

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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370

Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...

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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363

Clemens, Michael - 2014

Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...

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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Clemens, Michael - 2010

globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …

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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development

Clemens, Michael - 2009

Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...

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Free end-point linear-quadratic control subject to implicit continuous-time systems : Necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability

Geerts, A.H.W. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 1992

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