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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls
Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2021
Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving to another club have become suspect as they are considered as an obstacle to the free movement of workers. However, in an unrestricted market free migration from football...
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples …
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The Economics of Temporary Migrations
Dustmann, Christian - 2015
Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...
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Migration and Social Insurance
Cremer, Helmuth - 2011
A wide variety of social protection systems coexist within the EU. Some member states provide social insurance that is of Beveridgean inspiration (with universal and more or less flat benefits), while others offer a system that is mainly Bismarckian (with benefits related to past contributions)....
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Migration, Congestion and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2017
This article analyzes the effect of migration from a less advanced economy to a more advanced economy on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration...
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Climate Change and Migration : A Dynamic Model
Mason, Charles F. - 2016
In this paper I explore a model where citizens of a country vulnerable to damages from climate change may migrate to a second country, from which a steady stream of greenhouse gases occur. If this migration imposes costs on the emitting country, then migration induces a sort of pseudo carbon...
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Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?
Gröschl, Jasmin - 2016
The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...
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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration
Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar - 2021
the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs (‘immigration policy’ channel … to more generous family reunion program. Fourth, the global elasticity and the policy contribution are much greater for …
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Subsidies for Wages and Infrastructure : How to Restrain Undesired Immigration
Meier, Volker - 2006
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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