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Migrants and economic performance in the EU15 : their allocations across countries, industries and job types and their (productivity) growth impacts at the sectoral and regional le...

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2010

add migration variables to robust determinants of growth and find positive and significant relationships between migrants …

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Internal migration and its impact on reducing inter-communal disparities in Chile

Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012

Based on the affirmation that internal migration in Chile has become increasingly less important as an equalizing … migration decision (based on observed and unobserved characteristics). This study finds that the productivity differential is … the leading factor explaining migration. However, migration not only depends on individual characteristics, but strongly …

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Migration and productivity in the UK : an analysis of employee payroll data

Nam, Hoseung; Portes, Jonathan - 2023

-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …

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Trade, education, governance and distance : impact on technology diffusion and productivity growth in Asia and LAC

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology diffusion and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the South, focusing on LAC and East Asia over the 32 years before the Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises...

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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...

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany ; conference paper

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector specific factors model, in which...

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