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Refugee Resettlement, Redistribution and Growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018

This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a … growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less … countries. I also derive conditions for the proposed resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence …

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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part II)

Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...

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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part I)

Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Pritchett, Lant - 2013

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...

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Strategic Nonlinear Income Tax Competition with Perfect Labor Mobility

Bierbrauer, Felix J. - 2011

Tax competition between two governments who choose nonlinear income tax schedules to maximize the average utility of its residents when skills are unobservable and labor is perfectly mobile is examined. We show that there are no Nash equilibria in which there is a skill type that pays positive...

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Labor Migration and the Case for Flat Tax

Blumkin, Tomer - 2011

In this paper we employ a tax-competition model to demonstrate that in the presence of migration the re-distributive advantage of a non-linear income tax system over a linear (flat) one is significantly mitigated relative to the autarky (no-migration) equilibrium. When migration threats are...

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Migration and Trade

Egger, Peter H. - 2011

Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is...

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth 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...

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Why Do People Dislike Low-Wage Trade Competition with Posted Workers in the Service Sector?

Calmfors, Lars - 2012

The issue of low-wage competition in services trade involving posted workers is controversial in the EU. Using Swedish survey data, people's attitudes are found to be more negative to such trade than to goods trade. The differences depend on both a preference for favouring social groups to which...

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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-Border Labor Migration : Evidence from the Accounting Profession

Bloomfield, Matthew J. - 2016

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,...

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