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Beer, Christian; Gnan, Ernest; Birchler, Urs W.; … - Conference "Cash on Trial" <2015, Zürich>; SUERF - The …; … - 2016

Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary

This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...

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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor? : conference paper

Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013

Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...

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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...

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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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Empirical welfare analysis with preference heterogeneity : conference paper

Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2013

We apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of preference heterogeneity, derived from structural labour supply models. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of...

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Keeping up with the Joneses : income comparisons and labour supply ; conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - Preliminary version August 07, 2013

We investigate whether working time is related to the intensity of income comparisons and relative income. Our simple theoretical model demonstrates that the effects of relative income concerns depend on whether an individual can choose contractual working hours and/or overtime. In the empirical...

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Transfer behaviour in migrant sending communities : conference paper

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - 2013

important as mechanisms of risk sharing and income redistribution. We argue that migration and remittances have the potential to … remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private transfers. We use data from a detailed household survey in Kyrgyzstan …, designed by the authors, to empirically study the effect of migration and remittances on both monetary and non …

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Diaspora for development in Africa : [presented at the International Conference on Diaspora and Development on July 13 - 14, 2009, in Washington, DC]

Plaza, Sonia (contributor); Ratha, Dilip K. (contributor) - 2011

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Bangladesh economy in the 21st century : selected papers from the 2008 and 2009 conferences on Bangladesh at Harvard University

Quddus, Munir (contributor); … - 2011

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