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: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from …This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … to stem the illegal Mexican migration flow by contributing to economic growth and job creation in both countries. Twelve …
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migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … der Maquiladora-Industrie in Mexiko (Kapitel 4), dem Zusammenspiel von Migration und Handel und deren Auswirkungen auf die …
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: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from …This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … to stem the illegal Mexican migration flow by contributing to economic growth and job creation in both countries. Twelve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003393864
Although firms may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm heterogeneity is often overlooked. We model input demand across local factor markets, explicitly considering search costs which explain why firms care about both the price and availability of inputs. The...
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-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and … stream of future wage gains, but it is dampened by a sunk emigration cost. Migration barriers slow the adjustment of the … asymmetric welfare implications for the skilled and unskilled households. …
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simple quantification procedure. Using data for France and the United Kingdom, we find that the aggregate welfare distortion …
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inequality and welfare up to first- and second order. Inequality arises in equilibrium due to a combination of changes in income …-improving policies can have strong effects on both welfare and inequality, but the impact is both quantitatively and qualitatively …
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This paper presents a general equilibrium model of interenterprise arrears, characterized by n-stage production technology with random productivity shocks. The model shows that large interenterprise arrears in transition economies may reflect substantial business risks in those countries and...
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This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade...
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The purpose of this study is to measure the sensitivity of traded quantities and trade unit values to agricultural production shocks. We develop a general equilibrium model of trade in which production shocks in exporting countries affect both traded quantities and trade unit values. The model...
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