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Remittances, Migrants’Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
DOCQUIER, Frédéric; RAPOPORT, Hillel; SALOMONE, Sara - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the restrictiveness and selectivity of immigration policies at destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019030
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Agglomeration, tax competition and local public goods supply.
Norman, Eva Benedicte Danielsen; Norman, Victor Danielsen - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2010
In this paper we develop a framework for studying tax competition and local public goods supply in a setting where real and fiscal externalities interact with local democracy. We use the framework (a) to analyse if there is any reason to believe that local autonomy generally will give a tax race...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019271
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The Effect of Mexican Workforce Migration on the Mexican Maquiladora Labor Market
Atkinson, Scott E.; Ibarra, Marilyn - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)
A great deal has been written about the effects of foreign migration on the wages of U.S. workers. However, little is … known about the effects of Mexican interstate immigration (i.e., internal Mexican migration) and international return … migration of labor and foreign capital on wages and employment in the maquiladora industry in Mexico. We examine these issues by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021346
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DINÁMICA DEMOGRÁFICA INTERCENSAL DE LOS MUNICIPIOS DEL VALLE DEL CAUCA 1993-2005
Negrette, Ronald García - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA Y ADMINISTRACIÓN (2011)
El objetivo del artículo es evaluar un modelo de Dinámica Demográfica, basado en la población esperada y observada, a partir de la dinámica de la población del Valle del Cauca, durante los periodos censales 1993 y 2005. Los resultados arrojan que existe un desfase de sobrevaloración de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021396
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Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues
Holzmann, Robert; Koettl, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity to address social risks with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021894
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The new economics of the brain drain
Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021969
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Continental vs. Intercontinental Migration: An Empirical Analysis of the Impacts of Immigration Reforms on Burkina Faso
Wouterse, Fleur - Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
migration, increased intercontinental migration has strong positive household welfare effects. Similarly, an increase in the … Temporary Migration Programme (TMP) which, by lowering the cost involved, would enable poorer households to engage in … intercontinental migration. The temporary nature of such a program ensures that ‚Dutch disease? effects are mitigated through eventual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024406
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Macroeconomic consequences of global endogenous migration: a general equilibrium analysis
Borgy, V.; Chojnicki, X.; Le Garrec, G.; Schwellnus, C. - Banque de France - 2011
In this paper, we analyze the consequences of endogenous migration flows over the coming decades in a dynamic general … economic consequences of international migration flows by taking into account effects on both the destination and the origin … regions. Second, by allowing migration flows to be related to economic fundamentals, they are determined endogenously in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205033
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Agglomeration in the Periphery
Sarvimäki, Matti - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011
i. This discussion paper is a completely revised version of SERCDP0047, published April 2010. This paper argues that agglomeration externalities are important even in the rural periphery. The analysis focuses on the forced relocation of more than a tenth of the Finnish population after World War...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205099
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Regional disparities in employment of high-skilled foreigners: Determinants and options for migration policy in Germany
Burkert, Carola; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Wapler, Rüdiger - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2007
factors which attract highly qualified migrants to specific regions and the role of labour-migration policy is analysed. Our …. Based on these empirical results we discuss options of decentralized migration policy in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211051