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Portability of pension, health, and other social benefits: Facts, concepts, and issues

Holzmann, Robert; Koettl, Johannes - 2012

Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity to address social risks with...

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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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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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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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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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von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2012

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...

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Labor Mobility and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union

Baglioni, Angelo; Boitani, Andrea; Bordignon, Massimo - 2015

Labor mobility is commonly taken as a property of an optimal currency area. But how does that property affect the outcome of fiscal policies? In our model, we show that perfect (costless) labour mobility is not necessarily welfare improving, since it prevents the national fiscal authorities from...

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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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Inventor Returns and Mobility

Harhoff, Dietmar; Heller, David; Momtaz, Paul P. - 2024

We show that firm and industry, rather than inventor and invention factors, explain more than half of the variation in inventor returns in administrative employer-inventor-patent-linked data from Germany. Between-firm variation in inventive rents is strongly associated with inventor mobility....

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A Spatial Perspective on European Integration: Heterogeneous Welfare and Migration Effects from the Single Market and the Brexit

Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias - 2016

We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1 … percent causing an estimated migration of about 8 million individuals to the European core. This implies that the dismantling …

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