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This paper investigates the effects of international migration restrictions on communities' capacity to absorb income … migration as an adaptive strategy. Relying on a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages, we use a triple difference …
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This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
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The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …
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in tax revenue from the out-ow of migration. …
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Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...
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local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …
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taxation on the migration decisions of the entire working population in a high-tax source country, Finland. We find that the … average domestic elasticity of migration with respect to the domestic tax rate is very small (around 0.0005). We also examine … the income gradient of the semi-elasticity of migration, shown to be the key sufficient statistic in Lehmann et al. (2014 …
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the …
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For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …
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