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Globalisation through international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and international movements of labour is a key force driving economic growth. However, Japan is an outlier among OECD countries, with the lowest levels of import penetration, stock of inward FDI relative to GDP and...
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A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (net-work effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible "diaspora...
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recent literature developed since the 1990s, through the work of Gould (1994), on the relationship between immigration and … international trade, we propose in this paper to assess the impact of Algerian immigration networks on Algerian exports. It is clear …
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immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …
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anticipates that rich natives oppose low skilled immigration more than poor natives, and that this gap is larger in states with … equally opposed to low skilled immigration, and rich natives are actually less opposed to low skilled immigration in states … with more fiscal exposure than they are elsewhere. We do find that poor natives are more opposed to low skilled immigration …
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …
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Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous...
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analyse the interaction of emigration and immigration with foreign direct investment, exports and imports, and international … countries and years, it is observed that immigration and emigration act as two sides of the same coin. The results lead the …
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Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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