affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

mobility – the human capital model and the migration model – across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …

composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of migrants is positive if migration is controlled by policy … the skill-composition of migrants under free migration; but it exerts a more positive effect under controlled migration …

when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill) migration. In this paper we first examine this hypothesis in a politico … arise because the skill composition of migration is itself affected by the generosity of the welfare state …

labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom" hypothesis. Labor migration is governed by net-of-tax factor … into account the effect of taxes and migration on factor rewards and the fiscal burden imposed by migration on the decisive … state member state), with tax financed benefits which is able to control the volume and the skill-composition of migration …

between skilled and unskilled migration rates. The main purpose of the paper is to assess the role of mobility restriction on … shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a free migration regime, the impact is expected to be negative on the … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …