The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990’s in all OECD countries. To accomplish this, we are the first to employ a comprehensive database of migrant stocks, grouped by education level and country of origin/destination, for the years 1990 and 2000. Due to the much...

This paper explores how government preferences affect the choices of capital tax rates in the presence of tax competition. We develop a model in which governments, differentiating in their preferences for economic development and regional equality, compete for mobile capital over corporation taxes. The key prediction of the model, borne out in data from OECD countries over the years 1990-2007, ...

Country-level longitudinal data at three-year intervals over 1990–2004 are used to analyze the factors affecting emigration of physicians from Sub-Saharan countries and the effects of this medical brain drain on life expectancy and number of deaths due to AIDS. Data are compiled on emigrating African physicians from 16 receiving Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) coun...

Most OECD countries are committed to reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases There is increasing scientific consensus that global warming is under way, linked at least in part to human economic activity. The considerable attention paid to this problem over the past ten years resulted not least from the 1992 United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Despite this a...

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions...

Why has physical piracy of music grown globally in recent years despite international efforts to reduce the problem? This research employs cross-country time series data analysis to examine physical music piracy rates across developed and developing economies. We provide 1999-2004 cross-country evidence from 70 countries that mean global music piracy rates grew over this period, and observe dif...

Human capital production in the U.S. economy is no longer what it used to be. Graduation rates for high school and college have fallen (Card and Lemieux 2001; Heckman and Lafontaine 2007). As a result, the rate of growth of the stock of human capital has slowed considerably (Goldin and Katz 2008). At the same time, other countries are improving their educational attainment. Although the United ...

In this paper, we investigate the nexus between life insurance and suicide behavior using OECD cross-country data from 1980 to 2002. Through semiparametric instrumental variable regressions with fixed effects, we find that for the majority of observations, there exists a positive relationship between suicide rate and life insurance density (premium per capita). Since life insurance policies pay...