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We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher …-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of … higher transfers. We show that in such a world, free migration increases the bürden of the welfare program in the rieh …
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We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
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unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … channels of adjustment to macro-economic and policy shocks in the EU. In contrast, labour migration plays a secondary role in …
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Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that … the case. I document that net in-migration rates decreased in areas more affected by the Great Recession. Using various IV … conclude that internal migration might help to alleviate up to one third of the effects of the crisis on wages in the most …
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spillovers to the nontradable sector and migration appear larger than estimates from shocks to the tradable sector. Effects …
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migration redistribution and investment process. This topic was chosen because in the modern conditions human potential … development becomes one of basic factors of the competitiveness and economic growing of countries. Migration redistribution …, the emergence of the migration cycle, and process of human potential transformation to capital that is able to provide the …
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This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
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Standard hours, a major component of total work hours, vary considerably across Europe. Many countries lowered their standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker-hours among more workers. Germany has seen a partial...
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The EU 2020 process has the key headline target of raising the average employment rate in the EU to 75 from the present 69 per cent. In this paper, we first derive a new result for optimal policymaking under uncertainty. It consists of two components: one of a unilateral policy reaction under...
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