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indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …
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with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing … due to increased housing costs, landowners may win. Moreover, we show how the relationship between migration and capital … reversal of migration during the transition to the steady state, like observed in East Germany after unification in 1990. It is …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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second country, from which a steady stream of greenhouse gases occur. If this migration imposes costs on the emitting country …, then migration induces a sort of pseudo carbon tax.via political economic forces. This pseudo tax creates an incentive for …), is smaller in the presence of migration. I discuss various comparative dynamics, for both the path of production and the …
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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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number has fueled fears about “Brain Drain” as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration … can compensate for the selection of high-skilled workers into migration. This papers measures the selection, incentive and … migration, thereby decreasing the average schooling level in the origin countries. However, stronger incentives to invest in …
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Observers repeatedly predict that climate change will lead and is already causing massive migration with very large … the contemporary link between climate change and migration fails to find much evidence of this migration. As climate …-in-the-Mine for climate change research. If migration driven by climate change is not happening today, Tuvalu may explain why. One …
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This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …
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On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...
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