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descriptive statistics and some key indicators to track the progress in economic growth and in trade integration that is the main …
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countries may have on industrial location, growth and welfare. The conclusions reached finally depend both on whether the import … rich country, the growth rate increases and welfare improves in both countries. If integration means that industry moves to … the poor country, the growth rate decreases; in spite of this, in this case the poor country can also improve its welfare. …
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Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences between developed EU and less developed African and Middle East countries have not declined that much and continue to drive mobility. Also, demographic trends show a strong...
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, both at the level of the outcome variable – usually national income or growth – as well as on the level of the independent … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …
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, both at the level of the outcome variable - usually national income or growth - as well as on the level of the independent … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …
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Extreme weather induced migration is a growing concern for low and middle income countries due to the increased variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages...
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Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
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We present a method aimed at estimating global bilateral migration flows and assessing their determinants. We employ that fact that available net migration figures for a country are (nonlinear) aggregates of migration flows from and to all other countries of the world in order to construct a...
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Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the economic and some social implications of those movements, are examined. Existing analyses of these issues are critically reviewed,...
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The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility maximization model used to analyze location decisions with a classical labor demand function at...
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