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Global earnings inequality, 1970 - 2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645689
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647672
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657505
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013539
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Essays on the economics of conflict and migration
Preotu, Veronica - 2016
Les conflits civils sont des événements dramatiques qui poussent les individus hors de leurs pays d'origine. Mais si l'émigration … était elle-même une force pacificatrice? Dans les deux premiers chapitres, je me suis intéressée à l'impact de l'émigration … modèle, l'émigration décourage les conflits en réduisant les gains d'une rébellion, tout en augmentant le coût d …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476185
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Brain drain, remittances, and fertility
Marchiori, Luca (contributor); Pieretti, Patrice (contributor) - 2008
that, at origin, increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation. -- Skilled … emigration ; Remittances ; Fertility ; Human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003792874
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Why don't labor and capital flow between young and old countries?
Calahorrano, Lena; Meulen, Philipp an de - 2009
In this paper we investigate the twofold effect of demographics on international factor flows in a model with endogenous policy constraints on both foreign direct investment and migration. Factor price differences between industrialized and developing countries create economic incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889091
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581005
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North-South trade, technology diffusion and productivity growth : are small states different?
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those in large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of education and North-South trade-related technology diffusion (NRD) on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114076
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The Brain Drain : An Unmitigated Blessing?
Faini, Riccardo - 2003
Increasingly, immigration policies tend to favour the entry of skilled workers, raising substantial concerns among sending countries. The "revisionist" approach to the analysis of the brain drain holds that such concerns are largely unwarranted. First, sustained migratory flows may be associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074758