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Can Tax Incentives Bring Brains Back? Returnees Tax Schemes and High-Skilled Migration in Italy
Bassetto, Jacopo; Ippedico, Giuseppe - 2023
Brain drain is a growing concern for many countries experiencing large emigration rates of their highly educated citizens. While several European countries have designed preferential tax schemes to attract high-skilled individuals, there is limited empirical evidence on the effectiveness of...
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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Shall we keep the highly skilled at home? The optimal income tax perspective
Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2011
migration costs, utilities and costs both depending on productivity. Three average social criteria are distinguished - national …
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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade
Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012
We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...
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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC : Linking Education Policies to Productivity
Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …
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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections
de Haan, Jakob - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing : A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter H. - 2021
We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …
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Unwarranted wage changes and the return on capital
Katsimi, Margarita; Kalyvitis, Sarantis; Moutos, Thomas - 2009
changes in labour productivity, are negatively associated with the return on capital. The main point of this paper is to show …
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionally skilled. The brain drain from the poor...
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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