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Low-skilled labor migration in Tajikistan : determinants and effects on expenditure patterns
Meier, Kristina - 2014
It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on … the migration decision is developed and tested empirically. In a second step, the effect of low-skilled labor migration on … household expenditure shares is analyzed using 2SLS. While only weak effects of migration measured by a simple dummy are visible …
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The impact of worker effort on public sentiment towards temporary migrants
Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - 2011
Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. -- Migration ; Exertion of effort ; Contracted Temporary Migration …
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Unconventional fiscal policy in HANK
Seidl, Hannah; Seyrich, Fabian - 2021
In HANK, we show that fiscal policy is an appropriate macroeconomic stabilization tool at the ZLB. Fiscal policy achieves the same macroeconomic aggregates and the same welfare as hypothetically unconstrained monetary policy by replicating its transmission mechanism. Consumption taxes and labor...
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Durable consumption, limited VAT pass-through and stabilization effects of temporary VAT changes
Clemens, Marius; Röger, Werner - 2022
This paper revives the question of whether a temporary VAT change is an adequate instrument for crisis stabilization. In empirical assessments, we find that durable goods consumption fluctuates strongly over the business cycle and that VAT rate changes affect durable goods in particular....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198802
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Unconventional fiscal policy in HANK
Seidl, Hannah; Seyrich, Fabian - 2021 - This version: August 10, 2022
We show that in a New Keynesian model with household heterogeneity, fiscal policy can be a perfect substitute for monetary policy: three simple conditions for consumption taxes, labor taxes, and the government debt level are sufficient to induce the same consumption and labor supply of each...
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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Remittances and public finances : evidence from oil-price shocks
Asatryan, Zareh; Bittschi, Benjamin; Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2016
We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax …-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find … that remittances have a large positive effect on VAT revenues but no effect on income-tax revenues. This suggests that …
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Bringing home the money : xenophobia and remittances ; the case of Germany
Holst, Elke (contributor); Schäfer, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2008
individuals with a personal migration background. Major findings are: First, concerns about xenophobia lead to higher remittances …The determinants of migrants' remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In … contrast to previous studies we analyze the motives for remittances not only for foreigners but also for the broader group of …
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Gender, migration, remittances : evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke (contributor); Schäfer, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2008
Gender-specific determinants of remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In … decade, female migration to Germany has increased. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany, although the … proportion varies significantly by country of origin. A feminization of migration is observable all over the world, and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726148
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
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