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Overview

Maurice Schiff is affiliated with the Institute of Labor Economics in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of economics, econometrics, and social sciences, with notable attention to subfields such as economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general economics, econometrics and finance, demography, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include migration and labor dynamics, natural resources and economic development, fiscal policy and economic growth, economic policies and impacts, diaspora, migration and transnational identity, migration, ethnicity and economy, as well as economic growth and productivity.

Maurice Schiff has published papers in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, Revue d'économie du développement, and World Trade Review.

  • Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less! (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Low, High and Super Congestion of a Renewable Natural Resource Under Autarky and Trade (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • A Political Economy and Voicing Model of the Institutional Impact of Brain Drain, Human Capital, Inequality and Country Size (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap (2023, World Trade Review)
  • Low, High and Super Congestion of an Open-Access Natural Resource: The Autarky Case (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Maurice Schiff has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Yoko Niimi, Çağlar Özden, Fredérić Docquier, and Yanling Wang.

Best Publications

  • Regional Integration and Development

    Maurice W. Schiff;L. Alan Winters

  • Where on earth is everybody ? the evolution of global bilateral migration 1960-2000

    Caglar Ozden;Christopher R. Parsons;Maurice Schiff;Terrie L. Walmsley

  • The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy

    Anne O. Krueger;Maurice Schiff;Alberto Valdés;Ibrd

  • International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain

    Çaḡlar Özden;Maurice W. Schiff

  • Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated

    Maurice Schiff

  • Emigration and democracy

    Frédéric Docquier;Elisabetta Lodigiani;Hillel Rapoport;Maurice Schiff

  • On “Indirect” Trade-Related Research and Development Spillovers

    Olivier Lumenga-Neso;Marcelo Olarreaga;Maurice Schiff

  • On `indirect' trade-related R&D spillovers

    Olivier Lumenga-Neso;Marcelo Olarreaga;Marcelo Olarreaga;Maurice Schiff

  • Social Capital, Labor Mobility, and Welfare: The Impact of Uniting States

    Maurice Schiff

  • The political economy of agricultural pricing policy. Vol. 4: a synthesis of the economics in developing countries.

    M. Schiff;A. Valdes

  • Regional integration as diplomacy

    Maurice Schiff;L. Alan Winters

  • International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

    Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Maurice Schiff

  • The International Migration of Women

    Andrew R. Morrison;Maurice W. Schiff;Mirja Sjöblom

  • Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less!

    Yoko Niimi;Caglar Ozden;Maurice Schiff

  • The Plundering of Agriculture in Developing Countries

    Alberto Valdes;Maurice Schiff

  • On the Geography of Trade

    Céline Carrère;Maurice Schiff

  • Migration and the skill composition of the labour force: the impact of trade liberalization in LDCs.

    Ramon Lopez;Maurice Schiff

  • Aggregate Agricultural Supply Response in Developing Countries: A Survey of Selected Issues

    Maurice Schiff;Claudio E. Montenegro

  • Trade-related technology diffusion and the dynamics of North-South and South-South integration

    Maurice Schiff;Yanling Wang;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Dynamics and Politics in Regional Integration Arrangements: An Introduction

    Maurice Schiff;L. Alan Winters

  • The political economy of social exclusion, with implications for immigration policy

    Mark Gradstein;Maurice Schiff;Maurice Schiff

  • North‐South and South‐South trade‐related technology diffusion: an industry‐level analysis of direct and indirect effects

    Maurice Schiff;Yanling Wang

  • Small is Beautiful: Preferential Trade Agreements and the Impact of Country Size, Market Share, and Smuggling

    Maurice Schiff

  • International Migration, Economic Development and Policy

    Ça lar Özden;Maurice Schiff

  • Trade-Related Technology Diffusion and the Dynamics of North-South and South-South Integration

    Maurice Schiff;Marcelo Olarreaga;Marcelo Olarreaga;Yanling Wang

  • Small is beautiful : preferential trade agreements and the impact of country size, market share, efficiency, and trade policy

    Maurice Schiff

  • Labor market integration in the presence of social capital

    Maurice Schiff

  • North-South and South-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: How Important Are They in Improving TFP Growth?

    Maurice Schiff;Yanling Wang

  • Regional Integration and Development in Small States

    Maurice Schiff

  • On the Geography of Trade: Distance is Alive and Well

    Maurice Schiff;Celine Carrere

  • Agricultural incentives in developing countries: measuring the effect of sectoral and economywide policies.

    A. O. Krueger;M. Schiff;A. Valdes

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Docquier
Frédéric Docquier Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Marcelo Olarreaga
Marcelo Olarreaga University of Geneva
L. Alan Winters
L. Alan Winters University of Sussex
Caglar Ozden
Caglar Ozden World Bank
Hillel Rapoport
Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics
Christopher A. Parsons
Christopher A. Parsons University of Western Australia
Anne O. Krueger
Anne O. Krueger Johns Hopkins University
Michel Beine
Michel Beine University of Luxembourg
Arvind Panagariya
Arvind Panagariya Columbia University
Mark Gradstein
Mark Gradstein Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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