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The migration response to increasing temperatures

Cattaneo, Cristina; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze...

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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level

Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015

We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

emigration from the South may directly result in the well-known concept of brain drain, it also causes a brain gain effect, the … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. -- Intellectual property rights …

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

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Does public governance always matter? : how experience of poor institutional quality influences FDI to the South

Darby, Julia; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Wooton, Ian - 2010

This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

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Demographics and factor flows : a political economy approach

Calahorrano, Lena; Meulen, Philipp an de - 2011

policy barriers interact. We find that incentives to expropriate increase as more emigration from the developing country …- und Schwellenländern im Zuge der Emigration von jungen Arbeitskräften in Industrieländer zunehmen. Auf der anderen Seite …

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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity

Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...

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Accounting for intergenerational social immobility in low- and middle-income countries

Koenings, Fabian; Schwab, Jakob - 2020

latent factors of their development process, such as cognitive and non-cognitive skills as well as the characteristics of …

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Unconditional Cash Transfers : A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries

Crosta, Tommaso; Karlan, Dean; Ong, Finley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use Bayesian meta-analysis methods to estimate the impact of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) on twelve primary outcomes from 114 studies of 72 UCT programs in middle and low income countries. Cash transfers generate strong and positive average treatment effects on ten of thirteen...

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