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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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Immmigration and Internal Mobility in Canada

Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge - CESifo - 2014

We analyze the impact of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) and permanent immigrants on interprovincial mobility in … given province tends to substantially decrease net interprovincial mobility. This is not the case, however, for the inflow …

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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2013

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country’s residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first...

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What Drives Immigration Amnesties?

Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - CESifo - 2012

We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...

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What Do Immigrants Value Most About Switzerland? Evidence of the Relative Importance of Income Taxes

Morger, Mario - CESifo - 2013

This study investigates whether migrants, once they have decided to move to Switzerland, prefer to settle in municipalities that feature low income taxes. In line with the existing literature, results from cluster-specific count data models indicate that income taxes are a significant pull...

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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000–2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU

d'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - CESifo - 2013

The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as … social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU mobility. It does this by using Eurobarometer data for the … abroad for professional reasons. In contrast, difficulties are likely to negatively affect mobility incentives. The sign of …

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and...

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Peri, Giovanni; … - CESifo - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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