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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...

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Analysis of Spatial Disparities by a Structural Equations Model

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008

This paper presents a new analytical framework for assessing spatial disparities among countries. It takes for granted that the analysis of a country’s performance cannot be limited solely to either economic or social factors. The aim of the paper is to combine relevant economic and...

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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism

Wang, Shunli; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009

consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide. …

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Connectivity and Concentration in Airline Networks: A Complexity Analysis of Lufthansa's Network

Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter; Cento, Alessandro - 2011

means of network geometries, small-world effects and scale-free phenomena. We will illustrate these new developments on the …

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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …

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Understanding Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses

Claessens, Stijn; Kose, M. Ayhan; Laeven, Luc; … - 2013

The global financial crisis of 2007-09 has led to an intensive research program analyzing a wide range of issues related to financial crises. This paper presents a summary of a forthcoming book, Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses, that includes 19 contributions...

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What fundamentals drive world migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

the world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and … demographic fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world … evidence drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration …

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Foreign currency debt, financial crises and economic growth: A long run view

Bordo, Michael D.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Stuckler, David - 2009

Foreign currency debt is widely believed to increase risks of financial crisis, especially after being implicated as a cause of the East Asian crisis in the late 1990s. In this paper, we study the effects of foreign currency debt on currency and debt crises and its indirect effects on short-term...

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The impact of immigration on international trade: A meta-analysis

Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...

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Teaching practices and social capital

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011

We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...

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