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Migration, Skill Composition and Growth
Kim, Young-Bae; levine, Paul; Lotti, Emanuela - School of Economics, University of Surrey - 2010
sending economies? How differently would skilled (or un- skilled) migration affect both receiving and sending economies? What … factors would contribute to immigration/emigration benefits/costs and economic growth driven by migration? Who are the winners … different skill compositions to address these questions. We show that migration, in general, is beneficial to the receiving …
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How do firms adjust to negative labor supply shocks? : evidence from migration outflows
Dicarlo, Emanuele - 2022
The quality of workers in a country positively relates to productivity of firms, adoption of new technologies, and growth. This paper studies adjustments of Italian firms to negative labor supply shocks in the context of workers' outflows from Italy to Switzerland. My diff-in-diff leverages the...
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Migration, innovation, and growth: an African story?
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Tani, Massimiliano - 2019
This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between short-term labour mobility, as proxied by tourism flows, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, we find that short-term mobility...
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How Does Labor Mobility Affect Income Convergence?
Rappaport, Jordan - 2000
The neoclassical growth model is extended to allow for mobile labor. Following a negative shock to a small economy's capital stock, capital and labor frictions effect an equilibrium transition path during which wages remain below their steady-state level. Outmigration directly contributes to...
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How Does Labor Mobility Affect Income Convergence?
Rappaport, Jordan - 2013
Labor mobility is introduced into the neoclassical growth model. For a small open economy with capital intensity below its steady-state level, outmigration directly contributes to faster income convergence but also creates a disincentive for gross capital investment. At low relative income...
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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Labor mobility and innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, as well as complementary country level...
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The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers : evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas; Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2020
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
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The labor market effects of opening the border : evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas; Peri, Giovanni - 2017
Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...
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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, as well as complementary country level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030837