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

Koenings, Fabian; Schwab, Jakob - 2020

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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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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 analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349170

Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms

Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...

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Multinational investors as export superstars : how emerging-market governments can reshape comparative advantage

Freund, Caroline L.; Moran, Theodore H. - 2017

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