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This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … to see to what extent labour income taxes and social security contributions determine migration flows. We collect data on … tax variables to estimate their effect on bilateral stocks of expatriates into OECD countries and the migration of skilled …
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In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
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This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background …
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For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …
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different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
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In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
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source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source …
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-matching framework (Pissaridès, 1985, 2000) in a migration model à la Harris and Todaro (1970). We find that the inflow of TFWs into a …
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We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...
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