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It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...
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This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...
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Just like any trade activity in well-functioning markets, migration tends to enhance the efficiency of the allocation of resources. With non-distortionary income distribution policy instruments which can compensate losers, migration generates income gains. But the gains tend to be typically...
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Motivated by the unique experience of Israel of a supply-side shock of skilled migration, and the concurrent rise in disposable income inequality, this paper develops a model which can explain the mechanism through which a supply-side shock of skilled migration can reshape the political-economy...
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Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … winners and losers, if left exclusively to market forces. The effects of financial globalization on income inequality depends …-exporting case, financial globalization drives up return to savings and drives down wages. In the capital-importing case, financial …
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Globalization radically changes income distribution and triggers intense international tax competition. Therefore …, globalization entails an extensive restructuring of the welfare state. We analyze a parsimonious model of an open economy, in its … the interactions between taxation, provision of social benefits, and globalization. We demonstrate how these interactions …
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between the welfare state and globalization driving forces. Globalization - a widespread contemporaneous phenomenon … finances of the welfare state. Financial globalization facilitates reallocation of capital across borders. The increased … typical welfare state. Another major aspect of globalization, low skill migration, attracted to the welfare state may put …
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globalization, international tax competition, and the fading generosity of the welfare state. Financial globalization triggers a … key mechanism which links financial globalization to redistribution policy, this paper develops a stripped-down model … trade from financial globalization spread out to all …
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In the presence of lumpy investment cost of adjustment, globalization may have non-conventional effects on the level of …-validating expectations. In this sense globalization destabilizes the economy. There can be substantial gains from globalization in the …
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In a static setup, migration of unskilled labor may be resisted by the entire native-born population because, being relatively low earners, migrants are net beneficiaries of the fiscal system. However, the paper shows that with a pay-as-you-go pension, an important pillar of the welfare state,...
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