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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa …

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Spatial wage gaps and frictional labor markets

Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - 2019

quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …

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Challenged by migration : Europe's options

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

mobility issue by not preserving free internal labor mobility and not establishing a joint external migration policy. …This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor …

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Exit, voice and political change : evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States

Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2018

We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...

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Worker migration or job creation? : persistent shocks and regional recoveries

Greenaway-McGrevy, Ryan; Hood, Kyle K. - In: Journal of urban economics 96 (2016), pp. 1-16

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Human capital sorting : the "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017

Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...

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Reassessing labor market adjustments and migration in Europe and the United States : how Different?

Beyer, Robert; Smets, Frank - In: Essays on current macroeconomic challenges in Europe, (pp. 6-28). 2016

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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments

Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - CESifo - 2013

margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for each skill level, the distribution of migration cost is also … migration is decreasing in the skill level. When the semi-elasticity of migration is increasing in the skill level, either … negative. Numerical simulations are calibrated using plausible values of the semi-elasticity of migration for top income …

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Regional Implications of Financial Market Development: Credit Rationing, Trade, and Location

Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2013

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) - 2012

have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …

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