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Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...

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Internal Mobility after the Expansion of the Welfare State: Evidence from Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina - 2018

place by the 2000s. At the same time, internal migration rates dropped to less than 0.3 percent -among the lowest in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532899

Tax deductibility of commuting expenses and residential land use with more than one center

Wrede, Matthias - 2003

This paper analyzes the treatment of commuting expenses by the income tax code from a normative and a positive point of view within a continuous space framework with endogenous residence choices and perfect labor mobility. As commuting expenses should never be deductible from the income tax base...

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The role of housing in labor reallocation

Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Veracierto, Marcelo - 2010

This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing markets and moving costs in determining the character and extent of labor reallocation in the US economy. Labor reallocation in the model is driven by idiosyncratic city-specific...

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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met

Gottschalch, Sören - 2013

population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

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Brain drain and development traps

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

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Migrant networks and job search outcomes: Evidence from displaced workers

Colussi, Tommaso - 2013

This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of past co-workers of the same nationality. For this exercise I use matched employer-employee micro data on the universe of private-sector employees in Italy between 1975 and 2001....

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Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …

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