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Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

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What do immigrants value most about Switzerland? Evidence of the relative importance of income taxes

Morger, Mario - 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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What Makes Brain Drain More Likely? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Méango, Romuald - 2016

In Sub-Saharan Africa, high-skilled workers are 13 times more likely to migrate than low-skilled ones. This sheer number has fueled fears about “Brain Drain” as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration prospects might give incentives to invest in schooling, it...

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Knowledge Remittances: Does Emigration Foster Innovation?

Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively contributes to innovation in source countries. We use...

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Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms

Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2018

A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....

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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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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Comfort and Conformity: A Culture-based Theory of Migration

Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2018

This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to value comfort (high wages) and conformity (interactions with individuals who share similar world views). Regions are assumed to differ economically (average wages) and culturally...

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Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness: Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country

Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018

The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...

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The influence of labor taxes on the migration of skilled workers

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina Maria - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of skilled workers. Given the increasing mobility of labour, especially of high-skilled people and expatriates, it is interesting to see to what extent labour income taxes and...

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