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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital: A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Optimal Income Taxation, Outsourcing and Policy Cooperation in a Dynamic Economy

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009

This paper concerns optimal income taxation in a two-country OLG economy, where each country is characterized by asymmetric information between the government and the private sector, and where one of the countries outsources part of its production to the other. In the country whose firms...

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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...

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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy

Wildasin, David E. - CESifo - 2014

paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …

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Competition for Migrants in a Federation: Tax or Transfer Competition?

Köthenbürger, Marko - CESifo - 2012

, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels … results are relevant, e.g., for federal policies that tackle inefficient migration competition and for evaluating whether a … country may wish to adopt unilateral ‘migration-purchase’ policies. …

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Migration and the Welfare State: The Economic Power of the Non-Voter?

Boerner, Kira; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2005

the total effect of migration depends on the initial income distribution in the economy. Our results also contribute to …

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Income Taxes, Property Values, and Migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2003

locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a … are mobile, a tax on them induces little migration because the tax will reduce the rents on land inhabited by the rich. A …

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Optimal Taxation under Regional Inequality

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - CESifo - 2014

, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution … are reduced by several percentage points if productivity enhancing migration is taken into account. Additionally, we study …

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