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This paper establishes an inventory of international migration and trade relationship. In the new global context, this … Hierarchical Ascendant Classification to show a clear link between migration and trade, where distance is the main discriminating … variable. We used a gravity model in cross section to show the positive effect of trade on international migration. The signs …
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Après avoir défini différentes manières de calculer les distances entre les langues (méthode lexico-statistique, distances de Levenshtein, distances basées sur les arbres linguistiques ou encore distances phonétiques) et entre groupes de population, ce chapitre propose d'explorer comment...
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In this paper, we pursue several goals; we first check if the downward trend in corporate income tax rates in Europe reflects a strategy of tax competition, and not a "yardstick competition" in neighboring countries. We estimate the scale of fiscal externalities on neighboring countries in terms...
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This paper contribtes to the small empirical literature dealing with strategic tax behaviors of small EU countries. We estimate tax reaction functions of national governments competing with each other. Deriving a simple model of tax competition in a Nash and Stackelberg framework, we use panel...
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evolution of trade of several economic areas and of the heterogeneity of the behaviors of the countries constitutive of these … trade creation and trade diversion effects. …
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GeoDist makes available the exhaustive set of gravity variables used in Mayer and Zignago (2005). GeoDist provides several geographical variables, in particular bilateral distances measured using citylevel data to assess the geographic distribution of population inside each nation. We have...
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compliance of their products. The success of the spread of eco-labels is that they are an instrument of trade protection. While … it is difficult to isolate the impact of environmental standards on trade. Nevertheless, our results confirm their …
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Recent economic literature on the impact of migration on the country of origin has not successfully analyzed the effect … of migration on unemployment and wage rate especially in urban area. Using a detailed CGE model applied to the moroccan … from Sub-Saharan Africa into Morocco and rural-urban migration, the impact on wage rate and unemployment is ambiguous. …
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This article examines the effect of remittances on economic growth, highlighting the main transmission channels. Using the SGMM method, estimates based on data from 27 developing countries show that remittances have a positive and significant effect on economic growth. The results don’t allow...
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