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Ethnicity and tax filing behavior
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Miao, Chizheng - 2019
We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish … behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting patterns within Sweden’s largest commuting zone. We find that newly … arrived immigrants file fewer deductions than natives, that immigrants with a longer duration of stay in the host country …
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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU
d'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292500
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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-border Labor Migration: Evidence from the Accounting Profession
Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; Christensen, … - 2015
The paper examines whether international regulatory harmonization increases cross-border labor migration. To study this question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431204
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Pay and Unemployment Determinants of Migration Flows in the European Union
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022
immigration by approximately 6 and 3 persons by 1000 inhabitants in both countries. These results are also corroborated with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290041
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Pay and Unemployment Determinants of Migration Flows in the European Union
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022
immigration by approximately 6 and 3 persons by 1000 inhabitants in both countries. These results are also corroborated with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240478
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Marten - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and...
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The causal effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2010
We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...
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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940
Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2024
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
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Uncovering Gatsby Curves
St-Amant, Pier-André Bouchard; Garon, Jean-Denis; … - 2020
Empirical findings suggest a positive correlation between inequality and social immobility, a phenomenon coined the Gatsby curve. However, complete explanations of the phenomenon have not yet been proposed. This paper answers two questions: What are Gatsby curves? When do they exist? We build a...
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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179898