Similar Search Results

“Stay With Us?” The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras

Gagnon, Jason - Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011

period from Honduras from 2001 to 2007 to the U.S. increased wages in Honduras. It notably exploits the variation of labour … and an instrumental variable approach, the estimates show that a 10% increase in emigration from Honduras increased wages …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131540

An analysis of the poor performance of recent immigrants and observations on immigration policy

Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132745

Capital Market Integration and Wages

Henry, Peter; Sasson, Diego - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2009

wages than trade in goods. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009141823

The Profit Picture: Trends and Cycles

Lovell, Michael C. - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 9 (1978) 3, pp. 769-789

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009142387

Does Home ownership Harm Labour Market Performances? A Survey

Havet, Nathalie; Penot, Alexis - HAL - 2010

While many countries have implemented various incentives to promote homeownership, this paper investigates the literature on the relationship between this residential status and the labour market performances. Since the rather negative original contribution by Oswald (1996), the literature has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793126

ESTIMATING AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES WITH HISTORY, GEOLOGY, AND WORKER EFFECTS

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - HAL - 2008

Does productivity increase with density? We revisit the issue usingFrench wage and TFP data. To deal with the ‘endogenous quantity of labour' bias (i.e., urban agglomeration is consequence of high local productivity rather than a cause), we take an instrumental variable approach and introduce...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793653

Can SME Policies Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina

Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Monsalvo, Ana P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper evaluates the impact of the Argentine SME support program PRE on employment, real wages, and exports. The … and quantitatively important impact of the program on employment and a positive although smaller impact on real wages and … the probability of exporting. We also find that the effect of the program on wages and the probability of exporting take …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799617

A VAR Analysis of FDI and Wages: The Romania's Case

Mutascu, Mihai Ioan; Fleischer, Anne-Marie - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 41-56

studies have shown that the relationship 'FDI-Wages' is significant and the two variables have one on one influence. More … precisely, the low wages have the role to attract FDI and the high volume of FDI generates the increase of the wages on the … destination's country labor market. Also, the FDI augmentations determine inequalities on the structure of the wages. The paper …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800067

Free Migration between the EU and Switzerland: Impacts on the Swiss Economy and Implications for Monetary Policy

Stalder, Peter - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 146 (2010) IV, pp. 821-874

The agreement with the European Union on liberalized migration had sizable effects on the Swiss economy. Simulations with a macroeconometric model show that the agreement mitigated the incidence of labor shortages and stimulated business investment, giving rise to an increased growth potential....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800219

Labour relations, social concertation and the development of the Welfare state in Spain

Claramunt, Carlos Ochando - Center of Economic Security, Urals Branch

The article concerns with the question of the development of the Welfare state in Spain

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800888