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This study critiques a prior study of migration determinants according to race, i.e., white migration versus nonwhite … migration, to central cities in the U.S. We find evidence strongly suggesting simultaneity bias. In addition, the specification …
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investments, reduced unemployment and increased labor migration. In the paper the system dynamics model, which describes …; import, its relation to internal producing; and migration processes are considered. Model functioning is measured considering …
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replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …
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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation." In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
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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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Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay £2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the additional infrastructure investments that immigrants...
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This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and … research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate level). We consider that Romanian universities need more ‘migration …
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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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For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …
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