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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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Imperfect Mobility

Cai, Zhengyu - 2020

This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....

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New region, new chances : does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?

Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022

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Voting on public pensions with hand and feet : how young migrants try to escape from gerontocracy

Haupt, Alexander; Peters, Wolfgang - 2001

, nevertheless, is restricted by migration of the young generations. This connection between political voting on intergenerational … case in which the young generations migration decision takes its effect on future pensions into account (strategic … migration) and the case in which it only reflects differentials in labor income (myopic migration). The paper also pays …

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Tax me if you can! : optimal nonlinear income tax between competing governments

Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2013

margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for each skill level, the distribution of migration cost is also … migration is decreasing in the skill level. When the semi-elasticity of migration is increasing in the skill level, either … negative. Numerical simulations are calibrated using plausible values of the semi-elasticity of migration for top income …

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Fiscal competition for imperfectly-mobile labor and capital : a comparative dynamic analysis

Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...

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Houses and/or jobs : ownership and the labour market in Belgian districts

Isebaert, Daan; Heylen, Freddy; Smolders, Carine - 2011

In a number of papers A.J. Oswald (1996, 1997) argues that high rates of home ownership may imply inferior labour market outcomes. This paper tests the Oswald hypothesis in a panel of 42 Belgian districts since the 1970s. The use of data going back to 1970 allows us to embed the Oswald...

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Labour mobility and the portability of social rights in the EU

D'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2013 - This version, February 2013

The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...

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Immmigration and internal mobility in Canada

Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge - 2014 - This version: May 2014

-matching framework (Pissaridès, 1985, 2000) in a migration model à la Harris and Todaro (1970). We find that the inflow of TFWs into a …

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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2016

For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...

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