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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2019
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179749
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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2020
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity by one standard deviation are more economically complex by 0.1 to 0.18...
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries' comparative …
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380982
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307974
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Measuring immigration policies : preliminary evidence from IMPALA : migration policies
Beine, Michel; Burgoon, Brian B.; Crock, Mary; Gest, Justin - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 527-559
character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on a selection of data for six pilot countries between 1990 and 2008, we … document the variation of immigration policies across countries and over time. We focus on three specific dimensions: the … immigration policies, and aggregation procedures that allow for gauging the stringency of immigration regulations comparatively. …
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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy : migration policies
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 638-672
The current European Union (EU) asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We show that the proposed system can go...
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Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 23, pp. 1-13
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...
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Tradable refugee-admission quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian crisis and the new European agenda on migration
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - 2015
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347130