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This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
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. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …
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advantages of migration have been used to argue against this, but much of the discussion has been absent of evidence. This paper … between skilled and unskilled migration? 5) What makes brain drain more likely? 6) Does brain gain exist? 7) Do high …
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in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more … reverses converging at the steady state. -- Migration ; self-selection ; human capital ; immigration policies …
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have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …, provided the risks are contained and efficient brain circulation is achieved. -- EU labor markets ; migration ; EU enlargement …
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Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor … characteristics of circular movers worldwide and investigates the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Recent policy … ; international migration ; remittances …
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We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins with describing the basic framework used in recent empirical crosscountry growth research. Even though this literature was mainly inspired by endogenous growth theories, the...
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While trade integration is often regarded as a principal determinant of economic growth, the empirical evidence for a causal linkage between trade and growth is ambiguous. This paper argues that the effect of trade in dynamic panel estimations depends crucially on the specification of trade....
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