Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 119
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508010
Cover Image
Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004
replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450583
Cover Image
The effect of Brexit on British workers living in the EU
Venâncio, Ana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022
The effect of Brexit is an important topic in the European and British political agendas. This study examines the perspective of the EU countries, with regards how British citizens working in an EU country reacted to the end of free movement of workers. Employing synthetic control methods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168044
Cover Image
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826016
Cover Image
Confined to stay : natural disasters and Indonesia's migration ban
Cinque, Andrea; Reiners, Lennart - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285575
Cover Image
A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning
Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663341
Cover Image
Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country
Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942898
Cover Image
Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952002
Cover Image
Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees
Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898665
Cover Image
Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration
Li, Lei; Fan, Jingting - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304459