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analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We …
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We introduce tax competition for mobile labor into an optimal-taxation model with two skill levels. We analyze a symmetric subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium of the game between two governments and two taxpayer populations. Tax competition reduces the distortion from the informational asymmetry...
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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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death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … pharmaceutical innovation. The baseline estimate of the cost per life-year gained from pharmaceutical innovation in Greece is $17 …
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macroeconomics. The current policy, however, provides a credible platform for sustainable growth. Greece has entered the process of …-se determining growth, supply-side reforms and institutional performance are; and for Greece both are better served within the EMU …
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and current account deficits, which have in turn driven Greece’s foreign indebtedness to alarming levels, necessitating …
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This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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of the restructuring left money on the table from the perspective of Greece, created a large risk for European taxpayers …
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We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried …
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The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western … Europe. Although migration is good in principle, as it yields gains from trade and specialization for all countries involved …
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