flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …

somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …

evaluating the response of regional government’s expenditures to changes in the size of the GRP (gross regional product) and to … changes in the region’s tax collections. While the results related to regional shares of tax revenues and expenditures are … than for tax revenues but greater than for budget expenditures, which stresses the effectiveness of budget equalization …

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

. We sketch the theoretical framework of matching estimators as a substitute for randomization in labor market programs …-in-differences matching estimator of treatment effects. Treatment and control groups are matched over individual observable characteristics …

underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching … from it, generated by matching. …

This Paper proposes and develops a dynamic matching model à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994, 1999a, 1999b) where …

the role of one of the main contenders: the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms … our data. Putting together the production and matching relationships, we show that production complementarity and …