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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2008
small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …. They also suggest that remote regions are highly vulnerable to the out-migration of skilled workers (‘brain-drain’) while … the in-migration of unskilled workers leads to widening wage inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015216115
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Effects of EU-Mercosur trade agreement on bilateral trade: the role of Brexit
Sanguinet, Eduardo; Alvim, Augusto - 2020
This article aims to assess the impact of the EU-Mercosur Agreement on the Brazilian economy using the Computable General Model (CGE) Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). The study proposes two sets of simulations – one with the United Kingdom as a member of the EU and the other without being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219437
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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2008
small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …. They also suggest that remote regions are highly vulnerable to the out-migration of skilled workers (‘brain-drain’) while … the in-migration of unskilled workers leads to widening wage inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219634
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温室効果ガス排出規制の地域間CGE分析
Shirai, Daichi; Takeda, Shiro; Ochiai, Katsuaki - 2011
Although many CGE models have already been developed for analyzing the climate policy in Japan, most of them only investigate national level impacts. However, impacts of emissions regulations are likely to vary considerably by region because there are large regional differences in household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229665
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On Barriers to Technology Adoption, Appropriate Technology and Deep Integration (with implications for the European Union)
Mercenier, Jean; Voyvoda, Ebru - 2018
Based on two strands of research, namely ‘barriers to technology adoption’ and ‘appropriate technology’, we propose a formal reappraisal of ‘deep integration’, a broad concept often used in trade policy discussions. We then evaluate the 2004-7 EU enlargement wave utilizing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015260095
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Regional Equality of Opportunities and Income: A General Equilibrium Modeling for Iran
Mortazavi Kakhaki, Morteza; Haqiqi, Iman; Mahdavi … - 2013
We will evaluate the impacts of redistribution of opportunities [access to public services] on the inequality of income in Iran provinces. The results of the General Equilibrium model show that equal opportunities through equalizing educational opportunities can significantly improve the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015265041
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Domestic tourism and regional inequality in Brazil
Haddad, Eduardo A.; Porsse, Alexandre A.; Rabahy, Wilson - 2011
domestic tourism in Brazil to consolidate an interregional matrix of expenditures by tourists and then use an interregional … input-output system for Brazil to compute the tourism multiplier effects based on alternative hypotheses for the sources of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015228161
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Artificial nighttime lights and the “real” well-being of nations: ‘Measuring economic growth from outer space’ and welfare from right here on Earth
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - 2017
GDP remains too much of an imprecise measure of the standard of living. There is a need for either substitutes or complements. Nighttime lights are a reasonable indicator of the extent, scale, and intensity of socio-economic activities, but a poor measure of national welfare. However, if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015256412
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Urbanization and Human Development Index: Cross-country evidence
Tripathi, Sabyasachi - 2019
The present study assesses the impact of urbanization on the value of country-level Human Development Index (HDI), using random effect Tobit panel data estimation from 1990 to 2017. Urbanization is measured by the total urban population, percentage of the urban population, urban population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015265977
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A General Equilibrium Model with Labor-Leisure and Domestic-Abroad Choice for Assessment of Labor Migration in a Small Open Economy
Bahalou, Marziyeh; Haqiqi, Iman - 2016
This paper studies the macroeconomic and sectoral impacts of labor migration. We employ LMGE, a multi-sector, multi … some sectors. Skilled labor migration increases the employment of unskilled labors in Agriculture, Oil and Gas, and Energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015265063