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add migration variables to robust determinants of growth and find positive and significant relationships between migrants …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … migration ; globalization …
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high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We …
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ageing societies in Europe over the forthcoming decades. Using new empirical results, data and projections of migration flows …We use new migration modelling and projection techniques in order to quantify the effect of migration in the context of …
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This paper argues that immigration can help to alleviate the burden aging presents for the welfare states of most Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both aging and immigration on economic growth. This is combined with a detailed model of the...
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migration. A century ago, more modest demographic forces in Europe were accompanied by strong catching-up economic growth in the … prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of ?free? migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …
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Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...
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results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows to test for causality on each individual country separably by accounting for...
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