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Can the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union Afford to Grow Old?

Monroe, Hunter K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The demographic transition in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) now underway is rapid compared with international experience, and emigration is playing a particularly large role. This paper describes and quantifies several factors which could magnify the challenge of pension reform....

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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China

Lipschitz, Leslie; Verdier, Geneviève; Rochon, Céline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

wages are sustained by a large reserve army of rural labor which drives internal migration, and (2) domestic capital is …

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Macroeconomics of Migration in New Member States

Bems, Rudolfs; Schellekens, Philip - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU's New Member States (NMS …

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Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labor Markets

Sutton, Bennett; Bayoumi, Tamim; Swiston, Andrew - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that … flexible, particularly with regard to migration, while those further east are less so. …

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Garbage in, Gospel Out? Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances

Melkonyan, Tigran A.; Grigorian, David A.; Shonkwiler, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to...

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Microeconomic Implications of Remittances in an Overlapping Generations Model with Altruism and Self-Interest

Melkonyan, Tigran A.; Grigorian, David A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

The paper explicitly models the dynamic strategic aspects of the interaction between the migrant and the remittance-receiving relative(s), with the migrant behaving as a Stackelberg leader. It is also different from other formalizations of remittance behavior in its treatment of the two parties'...

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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States and Europe

Dao, Mai; Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

estimate the dynamic response of regional employment, unemployment, participation rates and net migration to state … decreased over time, suggesting less overall net migration in response to a regional shock, (ii) the role of the participation … rate as absorber of regional shocks has increased, (iii) the response of net migration to regional shocks is stronger …

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The Demographic Dividend; Evidence From the Indian States

Mody, Ashoka; Aiyar, Shekhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

-state migration. The results imply that a substantial fraction of the growth acceleration that India has experienced since the 1980s …

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Republic of Moldova; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

consequences of migration. The survey results are broadly consistent both with the findings from balance-of-payments data and with … the stylized facts in the labor migration literature. The paper also examines various indicators to assess the …

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A Gravity Model of Workers' Remittances

Lueth, Erik; Ruiz-Arranz, Marta - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper creates the first dataset of bilateral remittance flows for a limited set of developing countries and estimates a gravity model for workers' remittances. We find that most of the variation in bilateral remittance flows can be explained by a few gravity variables. The evidence on the...

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