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Free Movement of Workers within the European Union. Transitional Measures on Romanian Workers

Iuliana, Cebuc; Laura, Pãnoiu; Carmen, Iordache Maria - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 3, pp. 8-8

The free movement of persons is one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European internal market. One of its important components is the free movement of workers within the Union, as provided for in Articles 45 and 46 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. This provides any...

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Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be...

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The Interaction between Income Inequality and Imports of Manufactured Goods: A Case for Developing Countries

Fawaz, Fadi A.; Rahnamamoghadam, Masha - In: Journal of Income Distribution 20 (2011) 3-4, pp. 6-23

Questions surrounding income inequality have received much attention in recent economic literature. The effects of the … imports of manufactured goods on income inequality in developing countries are found to be inconclusive in the existing … population, a decrease in income inequality is more likely to occur within the country. We use a dynamic specification to …

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Immigration and Income Inequality:A Comparative Study of Denmark and Germany, 1984-2003

Hussain, Mohammad Azhar; Deding, Mette; Jakobsen, Vibeke; … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 1, pp. 48-74

income inequality. This article analyzes the effects on income inequality of an increased number of immigrants in Denmark and … countries. We find higher inequality for immigrants than natives in Denmark but vice versa for Germany. Over the period 1984 …-2003, this particular inequality gap has narrowed in both countries. At the same time, the contribution of immigrants to overall …

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Measures of Income Distribution and Economic Growth

Hung, Mo Pak - In: Journal of Income Distribution 20 (2011) 3-4, pp. 24-42

In this study, the empirical contents of various income inequality measures are compared under an identical framework … with a well-tested data set. Our study suggests that long-term income inequality has a strong negative effect on Gross …

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Collinearity in growth regressions: The example of worker remittances

Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth regressions with different signs for the remittance variable we show that collinearity with the lagged dependent variable might indicate that collinearity should be investigated...

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A renaissance for social mobility and its significance for the bridge towards postsecondary education

Ritzen, Jo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

Inequality in earned wages is in our western society on the increase. Social mobility is on the decrease. The … question we address here, focused on K-12 (as well as Early Childhood Development), against a substantiation of the above …

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Worker Remittances and Growth: The Physical and Human Capital Channels

Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

Remittances may have an impact on economic growth through channels to physical and human capital. We estimate two variants of an open economy model of these two channels consisting of seven equations using the general method of moments with heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation correction...

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International migration and local employment: analysis of self-selection and earnings in Tajikistan

Atamanov, Aziz; Berg, Marrit van den - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper addresses the issue of self-selection of individuals in international labour migration, non-agricultural and agricultural employment in Tajikistan and its link to earnings from these activities. Unlike most empirical studies, we could attribute selection bias on unobservable...

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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

labour productivity, industrial performance and therefore, economic growth and development in Sudan. …

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