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Relocation of the Rich : Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes From Spanish Reforms
Agrawal, David R. - 2018
A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....
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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Gathmann, Christina - 2014
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more …
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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 - CESifo - 2008
, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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Houses and/or Jobs: Ownership and the Labour Market in Belgian Districts
Isebaert, Daan; Heylen, Freddy; Smolders, Carine - CESifo - 2011
employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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What Do We Know About the Relationship Between Regionalized Aspects of the Unemployment Insurance System and Internal Migration in Canada?
Day, Kathleen M. - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124105
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign … country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus it prevents a fraction of …
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
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What Drives Immigration Amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra - 2012
We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098338
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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
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