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Visas and work permits : possible global negotiating initiatives
Ng, Chi-Yung; Whalley, John - 2005
We discuss global options for initiatives intended to ameliorate adverse impacts of visa and work permit systems used by national governments around the world. We first describe and document some of their effects, noting the relative lack of other research work on these issues. We then discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261381
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The Place Premium : Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the U.S. Border
Clemens, Michael A. - 2009
We estimate the quot;place premiumquot;-the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the United States who are otherwise observably identical-with the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720433
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Visas and Work Permits : Possible Global Negotiating Initiatives
Ng, Chi-Yung - 2006
We discuss global options for initiatives intended to ameliorate adverse impacts of visa and work permit systems used by national governments around the world. We first describe and document some of their effects, noting the relative lack of other research work on these issues. We then discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783399
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International Trade, Fairness, and Labour Migration
Herwig, Alexia; Loriaux, Sylvie - 2015
This paper aims to show that fairness in trade calls for relaxing existing WTO rules to include a greater liberalisation of labour migration. After having addressed several objections to global egalitarianism, it will argue, first, that the world’s rich and the world’s poor participate in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132670
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Does birthplace diversity affect economic complexity? : cross-country evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2019
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124851
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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Does birthplace diversity affect economic complexity? : cross-country evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2020
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity by one standard deviation are more economically complex by 0.1 to 0.18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194569
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Global governance: old and new issues
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - 2008
supplies, immigration, and economic responses to political chaos. A few of these, but not the majority, are seen as good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263532
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From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: theory and evidence
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2008
immigration from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Our analysis supports the role played by economic channels (labour … and the very low fractions of voters favouring immigration are consistent with the median voter framework. At the same … time, given the extent of individual-level opposition to immigration that appears in the data, it is somewhat puzzling, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268876
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The impact of immigration on international trade: A meta-analysis
Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for … fully explained by study characteristics; trade restrictions and immigration policies matter for the impact of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282213