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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

international migration from developing to developed countries. In addition, we look at the relationship between trade, development … and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from Less Developed Countries (LDCs) are, so far …, very scarce. In this paper, we utilize a new dataset that is based on migration to Germany from 86 African and Asian …

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On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

affects the spatial distribution of economic activity, trade, migration, growth, and welfare. We assess quantitatively the … impact of migration and trade restrictions, energy taxes, and innovation subsidies. …

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Public Support to Clusters: A Firm Level Study of French “Local Productive Systems”

Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Mayneris, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper analyzes empirically a public policy promoting industrial clusters in France. Cluster policies have become popular in many countries but have not been extensively evaluated empirically. We use data on production and employment for firms that benefited from the policy and on firms that...

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Third Births in Austria: the Effect of Public Policies, Educational Attainment and Labour-Force Attachment

Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia; Hoem, Jan Michael; Neyer, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Total fertility in Austria has declined slowly but persistently from about 1.7 in the late 1970s to around 1.4 in the mid-90s, a reduction of less than twenty percent. As we show in this paper, a much stronger reduction (over fifty percent) occured over the same period in the standardized rate...

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Public Policies, Regional Inequalities and Growth

Martin, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper constructs a two-region endogenous growth model, where economic geography and public infrastructures play a key role. The model allows us to analyse the contribution of different types of redistributive public policies on growth, industrial geography and spatial income distribution....

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Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690-1871

Brunt, Liam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it … to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by … unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were inflated by unusually good weather. This has led researchers to …

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Occupational Choice Across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and second-generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labour market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Gang, Ira; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...

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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

Epstein, Gil S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generates herd behaviour. Herd behaviour is compared with the network externalities explanation...

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Post-Reform East and West: Capital Accumulation and the Labor Mobility Constraint

Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

is on the wage pressure that the threat of migration from East to West is likely to impose. The paper adopts a Ramsey … the East. All these effects are reduced by the migration-induced wage pressure as less capital is accumulated in the East … rigidity in the West leads to more capital accumulation in the East as the rise in the world-wide real interest rate is met in …

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