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Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that have hit Western … reduced in-migration into rather than increased out-migration away from affected areas. In the second part of the paper, we …
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Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US … for the different migration responses triggered by the two shocks. Next, we present a model where workers are …
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This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
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), labour demand and migration patterns. The adoption of new technologies might change the demand for labour in various ways … labour demand function. This is followed by an analysis of push and pull factors of bilateral migration that focuses on the …
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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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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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This paper presents an endogenous growth model of migration and technological diffusion with transitional dynamics …-biased technological change (SBTC), which first occurs in the destination, raises the relative return to high skill migration and thus the … bilateral migration data from 31 destinations and 195 origins is shown to support this hypothesis, with the average income of …
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We investigate the effects of an immigration shock, which is still on course, in the productive structure of Spanish regions in a Heckscher-Ohlin framework. Immigration alters relative factor endowment composition across Spanish regions. The persistence of rigidities in the regional labour...
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Can shifts in output mix or technologies attenuate the impact of immigration on wages? We explore this using immigration-induced changes in relative labor supply at the county level in US Censuses of Agriculture in early 20th century. An increase in labor supply induced a shift away from...
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