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For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …
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geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments … different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
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Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of...
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
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. Additionally, the wage rate and the labor market tightness increase and the unemployment ratio decreases in reaction to an increase …
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indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …
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distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
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This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … skilled workers. Given the increasing mobility of labour, especially of high-skilled people and expatriates, it is interesting … to see to what extent labour income taxes and social security contributions determine migration flows. We collect data on …
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the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular, integration depresses the incentives for some talented but …
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth … distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign …
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