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Subsidies for Wages and Infrastructure: How to Restrain Undesired Immigration

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2006

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 …This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We …

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Optimal Income Taxation with Tax Competition

Lipatov, Vilen; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 2010

We introduce tax competition for mobile labor into an optimal-taxation model with two skill levels. We analyze a symmetric subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium of the game between two governments and two taxpayer populations. Tax competition reduces the distortion from the informational asymmetry...

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Migration and Social Replacement Incomes: How to Protect Low-Income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration

Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2004

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

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Using Spatial Distribution of Outlets to Estimate Gambling Incidence

Dahan, Momi - 2017

The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries for which household survey data is unavailable or unreliable. A first application of this methodology is presented by merging data on the geographical location of gambling...

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Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy

Henkel, Marcel - 2018

Many countries operate pronounced fiscal equalization schemes that shift tax revenue across jurisdictions. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, costly trade and labor mobility to carve out the aggregate implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for...

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On the Finite Sample Properties of Pre-Test Estimators of Spatial Models

Piras, Gianfranco - 2014

This paper explores the properties of pre-test strategies in estimating a linear Cliff-Ord-type spatial model when the researcher is unsure about the nature of the spatial dependence. More specifically, the paper explores the finite sample properties of the pre-test estimators introduced in...

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Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Spatial Models with Heterogeneous Coefficients

Aquaro, Michele - 2015

This paper considers spatial autoregressive panel data models and extends their analysis to the case where the spatial coefficients differ across the spatial units. It derives conditions under which the spatial coefficients are identified and develops a quasi maximum likelihood (QML) estimation...

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Spatial and Social Mobility

Borck, Rainald - 2016

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area which is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential...

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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations : Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven - 2014

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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Homevoters vs. Leasevoters : A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2013

We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...

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