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Immigration and outsourcing : a general equilibrium analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor); … - 2005

This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in response to market conditions) and through...

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Energy Revolution and Disaster Response in the Face of Climate Change

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015

Nuclear meltdown in Japan and civil society strife across the Middle East highlight the degree to which resilience is core to international peace and security. This article considers the means by which communities can become increasingly resilient through shared best practices across a range of...

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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth : Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2010

at a fixed wage-income evel because population growth tends to outstrip real output growth. Dynamic equilibrium with … constant income and population is achieved through equilibrating adjustments in "positive checks" (mortality, starvation) and … economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus, but also for …

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Social Security and Demographic Trends : Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2007

The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems is not just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...

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Natural Hazards and Child Health

Pörtner, Claus C. - 2010

This paper examines how the occurrence of natural disasters affect health status of children using data from Guatemala. Despite a large literature on child health there is relatively little work on how shocks from natural hazards affect the health of children. Using three rounds of DHS data...

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The U.S. Westward Expansion

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2008

The U.S. economic development in the nineteenth century was characterized by the westward movement of population and … induced the westward migration, while population growth was responsible for the investment in productive land …

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What Role Does Marriage Play in Urban Africa? Evidence from a High HIV Area in Kenya

Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan - 2010

The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally placed few restrictions on male extra-marital relationships in sub-Saharan Africa. If this traditional pattern continues to remain in place today, then it may help explain the...

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Intergenerational Transfers : The Ignored Role of Time

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2008

The literature on inter vivos and intergenerational transfers has largely focused on the possible determinants of such transfers. Specifically, much of the empirical work has examined whether transfers are driven by altruistic relationship between "dynastic" households. However, the empirical...

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The Relationship Between Population Growth and Economic Growth in Mexico

Garza-Rodriguez, Jorge - 2016

The relationship between population growth and economic growth is of great interest both for demographers and for … development economists. Considering the case of Mexico, the objective of this study was to analyze the dynamic relationship … between population growth and economic growth, through a structural break cointegration analysis for the period 1960-2014. The …

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Preparing a Referee Report : Guidelines and Perspectives

Berk, Jonathan - 2016

Peer review is fundamental to the efficacy of the scientific process. We draw from our experience both as editors, authors and association representatives to provide a set of guidelines for referees in preparing their reports and cover letters to journal editors. While our document is directed...

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