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’s experience of migration, centring on two main issues: the economic effects of migration and the labour market performance of … immigrants. Two main results emerge from our study: first, as a result of shortcomings of the Swiss migration policy, immigrants … analysis, this study finally outlines some reform options for Swiss migration policy. …
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economic growth as measured by net migration, per capita income growth, and housing price growth. A second and a third set of …
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gross investment and an analogous cost to moving proportional to the rate of net migration effect extended equilibrium …
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This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use … an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual …
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Global international migration may influence child labor through a labor market effect. We empirically investigate this …-level characteristics, remittances, and country fixed effects, our findings are consistent with predictions and show that international out-migration …
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Global international migration may influence child labor through a labor market effect. We empirically investigate this …-level characteristics, remittances, and country fixed effects, our findings are consistent with predictions and show that international out-migration …
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We examine the consequences of increased economic integration between nations within a region. We adopt Krugman’s economic-geography model in which demand linkages can generate agglomeration of manufacturing activity. Manufacturing labour is assumed to be imperfectly mobile between countries....
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We return to a familiar topic in international trade, comparative advantage, introducing it into a model of economic geography. We provide a clear counterexample to the familiar result that trade liberalization leads to increased industrial concentration. Instead, lower trade costs may lead to a...
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In models of economic geography, plant-level scale economies and trade costs create incentives for spatial agglomeration of production into a manufacturing core and agricultural periphery, creating regional income differentials. We examine tax competition between national governments to...
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, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …
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