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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 Canada. Particular attention is given to the Canadian program of TFWs that has intensified enormously over the last 30 years. Results of the empirical analysis are analyzed through...

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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 … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by … examining the impact of emigration on income distribution in the source country. …

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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

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 factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect …

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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 they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...

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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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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2014

geographic distance and pre-migration wage profiles, we find that migrants demand a (indexed with respect to local rents) wage …

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