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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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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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Business visits, technology transfer and productivity growth

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020

This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business visits sourced from the U.S. National Business Travel...

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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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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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Labour mobility and the portability of social rights in the EU

D'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2013 - This version, February 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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