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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After … migrations, contrasting economic and refugee migrants, discussing the trade-offs between long-term asylum and temporary …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …
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factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may … nullify the'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor migration is governed not only by net-of-tax factor rewards, but rather … importantly also by the benefits that the welfare state provides. The paper analyzes fiscal competition with and without migration …
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This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …
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Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
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migration to those countries with the highest levels of welfare benefits. The paper concludes that migration is limited by the … incentives. On the other hand, migration is attractive for those working in the informal sector of host countries …
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on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We …
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unrestricted market free migration from football players will be Pareto efficient under special circumstances only. This paper … shows that transfer fees can correct inefficient migration flows from small to large football leagues. Home-grown rules that …
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, many studies of migration’s impact on pensions often focus on aggregate outcomes – system sustainability or distributive …
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trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility … use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration ows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period 2002 …-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration ows to labor …
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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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