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The world at the crossroad : demographic polarization and mass migration : global threat or global opportunity

Bruni, Michele - 2019

The unstoppable progress of the demographic transition is determining a progressive decline of the rates of growth of the total population and working age population of the planet, two phenomena that could have a very positive global socioeconomic and environmental impact. Unfortunately, it is...

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Book Review : Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016

once here. In Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, author David Bacon rejects … addition to the growing body of literature on the human consequence of globalization. Full text of book review available at …

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The Economics of International Labor Migration and the Case for Global Distributive Justice in Liberal Political Theory

Chang, Howard F. - 2009

Estimates of the magnitude of the gains that the world could enjoy by liberalizing international migration indicate … that even partial liberalization would not only produce substantial increases in the world's real income but also improve …

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Migration and the World of Work : Discursive Constructions of the Global in ILO Narratives About Migration

Amaya-Castro, Juan M. - 2012

This article investigates how a recent report by the ILO works hard to make migration a global phenomenon. The analysis reminds us that reality is never immediately legible; it is always construed discursively and migration is therefore neither inherently local nor global. It is precisely the...

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Global integration and world migration

Stark, Oded - 2017

This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by intensified trade links bring about expansion of people's social space and...

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Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology : 54th ERSA Congress Saint Petersburg 26-29 August, 2014

Miguélez, Ernest - 2014

international technological collaborations. By means of gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of …&D offshoring. The study finds a strong and robust relationship between inventor diaspora and different forms of international co … international diffusion of ideas (Agrawal et al., 2011; Kerr, 2008). In parallel, numerous papers have investigated the …

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Taking the skill bias out of global migration

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michal; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2018

quantitative multi-country model with trade, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with the same number of migrants …

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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis

Schneider, Dorothee - 2010

In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...

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Meritocracy across countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2003

The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...

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