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Fiscal competition for imperfectly-mobile labor and capital : a comparative dynamic analysis

Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...

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Tax deductibility of commuting expenses and residential land use with more than one center

Wrede, Matthias - 2003

This paper analyzes the treatment of commuting expenses by the income tax code from a normative and a positive point of view within a continuous space framework with endogenous residence choices and perfect labor mobility. As commuting expenses should never be deductible from the income tax base...

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Imperfect Mobility

Cai, Zhengyu - 2020

This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....

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New region, new chances : does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?

Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022

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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018

Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...

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Regional implications of financial market development: Credit rationing, trade, and location

von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2013

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

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Voting on public pensions with hand and feet : how young migrants try to escape from gerontocracy

Haupt, Alexander; Peters, Wolfgang - 2001

, nevertheless, is restricted by migration of the young generations. This connection between political voting on intergenerational … case in which the young generations migration decision takes its effect on future pensions into account (strategic … migration) and the case in which it only reflects differentials in labor income (myopic migration). The paper also pays …

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Tax me if you can! : optimal nonlinear income tax between competing governments

Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2013

margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for each skill level, the distribution of migration cost is also … migration is decreasing in the skill level. When the semi-elasticity of migration is increasing in the skill level, either … negative. Numerical simulations are calibrated using plausible values of the semi-elasticity of migration for top income …

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Migrating football players, transfer fees and migration controls

Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2007

unrestricted market free migration from football players will be Pareto efficient under special circumstances only. This paper … shows that transfer fees can correct inefficient migration flows from small to large football leagues. Home-grown rules that …

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Houses and/or jobs: Ownership and the labour market in Belgian districts

Isebaert, Daan; Heylen, Freddy; Smolders, Carine - 2011

In a number of papers A.J. Oswald (1996, 1997) argues that high rates of home ownership may imply inferior labour market outcomes. This paper tests the Oswald hypothesis in a panel of 42 Belgian districts since the 1970s. The use of data going back to 1970 allows us to embed the Oswald...

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