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techniques such as MRQAP. The empirical results reveal not only the determinants of international migration among OECD countries …
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In this paper we develop a methodology to analyze and compare multiple global networks. We focus our analysis on the relation between human migration and trade. First, we identify the subset of products for which the presence of a community of migrants significantly increases trade intensity. To...
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We present a method aimed at estimating global bilateral migration flows and assessing their determinants. We employ that fact that available net migration figures for a country are (nonlinear) aggregates of migration flows from and to all other countries of the world in order to construct a...
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This paper argues that immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most … Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both ageing and immigration on economic … vector-error-correction model. The conclusions from the analysis of transitory and permanent shocks are that immigration will …
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This paper argues that immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most … Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both ageing and immigration on economic … conclusions are that immigration will help to alleviate the ageing problem, as long as the immigrants will be able to participate …
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differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead … measured in efficiency units of labor. The estimated gains from removing immigration restrictions are huge. Using a simple …
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This paper evaluates whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural … la Obstfeld-Rogoff. Using data for Canadian provinces, we find evidence that aggregate immigration mitigates the increase … migration and temporary foreign workers. There is no evidence of such an effect for permanent international immigration …
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We propose a simple structural model of the upstream sector in the oil and gas industry to study the determinants of costs with a focus on its relationship with the price of oil.We use the real oil price, data on global drilling activity and costs of drilling to estimate a three-dimensional VAR...
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information related to the immigration stock it may delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required stock in the long …
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This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
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