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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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This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …
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, 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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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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with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …
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This study contributes to the literature on destination-country consequences of international migration with … member states over the years 1995-2010. Using a rich international migration dataset and an empirical model accounting for … the endogeneity of migration flows we find positive and significant effects of post-enlargement migration flows from new …
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This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which … migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of … macroeconomic variables – UK GDP growth and GDP at origin – are significant drivers of migration flows; evidence for the impact of …
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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …, including jobs for asylees. Dual citizenships and circular migration contracts are possible instruments. Migration policy can be …
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This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology diffusion and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the South, focusing on LAC and East Asia over the 32 years before the Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises...
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This paper uses state-level migration ow data between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the … migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a … disaster fund (Fonden). Our results suggest that lower than average precipitations increase undocumented migration, especially …
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