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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries 1986-2006

Boubtane, Ekrame - 2015

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 …-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign …-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after introducing migration in an augmented Solow-Swan model, we estimate a dynamic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020582

Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010

In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671737

Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125698

The Volatility Curse : Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2013

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753136

Natural Resources : Curse or Blessing?

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2013

Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094532

The Pungent Smell of 'Red Herrings' : Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021

Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) provide cross-country evidence that the resource curse is a “red herring” once one corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource exports are no longer significant while the value of...

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The Influence of Labor Taxes on the Migration of Skilled Workers

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina Maria - CESifo - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … to see to what extent labour income taxes and social security contributions determine migration flows. We collect data on … tax variables to estimate their effect on bilateral stocks of expatriates into OECD countries and the migration of skilled …

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Growth and the Geography of Knowledge

Aloi, Marta - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography … innovative firms. Migration costs, however, limit the concentration of economic activities in the most productive region …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919051

Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034643