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Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium

Janeba, Eckhard; Schulz, Karl - 2021

wisdom, in general equilibrium, migration lowers the bottom tax rate but raises the top tax rate, making the optimal tax …

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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021

productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …

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Give me your tired and your poor : impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020

Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...

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Refugee benefit cuts

Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023

This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...

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The impact of forced migration on in-group and out-group social capital

Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2022

In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … social spillovers to Palestinians, an established refugee population in Lebanon. We find that the impact of forced migration …

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Mobile internet access and the desire to emigrate

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines survey data on 617,402 individuals from 2,120...

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Women's rights and the gender migration gap

Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable …

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Climate change and migration : the case of Africa

Conte, Bruno - 2022

This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …

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Transit migration and crime evidence from Colombia

Rey, Ramón; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2024

This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … of the Venezuela-Colombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about … propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both …

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