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International trade and migration : a quantitative framework ; conference paper
Larch, Mario; Sirries, Steffen - 2014 - Preliminaray draft Ferbruary 2014
Goods trade and international mobility of labor are typically analyzed separately. While there is excellent research in both fields, far less is known about the interrelationships between international migration and international trade. This paper provides a first structurally estimable model of...
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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany ; conference paper
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340544
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Transfer behaviour in migrant sending communities : conference paper
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - 2013
Private transfers between households in developing countries have been extensively studied and shown to be economically important as mechanisms of risk sharing and income redistribution. We argue that migration and remittances have the potential to modify the prevalent transfer behaviour in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344638
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Do immigrants take or create residents jobs? : quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland ; conference paper
Basten, Christoph; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013 - This version: May 2013
We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland …, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different … immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342243
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The European crisis and migration to Germany : expectations and the diversion of migration flows ; conference paper
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2013
The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344609
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Współczesne zjawiska w gospodarce : 9 Międzynarodowa konferencja z cyklu, 22-23 czerwca 2017 r.
Balcerzak, Adam P. (ed.); Pietryka, Ilona (ed.) - Międzynarodowa konferencja z cyklu "Współczesne …; … - 2017
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Trade, integration and interregional inequality : conference paper
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 20, 2013
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs and where we can derive an...
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The natural resource curse revisited : is there a financial channel? ; conference paper
Hattendorff, Christian - 2013 - August 2013 (Draft)
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which refers to a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336252
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Carbon leakage with structural gravity : conference paper
Aichele, Rahel - 2013
The future international climate policy architecture will most likely consist of partial climate policy initiatives like the EU's Emission Trading System. Trade integration threatens to undermine these systems' environmental effectiveness by shifting emissions to other countries. We estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338400
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Immigrants, integration and cities : exploring the links ; [selection of the papers prepared for an experts' meeting in Paris on 18 and 19 March 1996]
1998
providing a better understanding of the relationship between immigration and urban development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000659530