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Homeownership : low household mobility, volatile housing prices, high income dispersion

Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - 2002

joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations … three results. First, homeownership enables more households to remain in the more desirable location at the expense of … newcomers. Second, homeownership adds to the volatility of the housing market. Third, homeownership may amplify the dispersion …

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The cost of migrating to a culturally different location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...

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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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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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What do we know about the relationship between regionalized aspects of the unemployment insurance system and internal migration in Canada?/ Kathleen M. Day; Stanley L. Winer

Day, Kathleen Mary; Winer, Stanley L. - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...

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Relocation of the rich : migration in response to top tax rate changes from Spanish reforms

Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2018

A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....

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Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment

Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta; Stuhler, Jan - 2016

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Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving in or Moving out?

Jackline, Wahba; Elmallakh, Nelly - 2021

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Internal Mobility after the Expansion of the Welfare State: Evidence from Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina - 2018

The Spanish welfare state was practically inexistent in the 1980s. It expanded throughout the 1990s and became fully in place by the 2000s. At the same time, internal migration rates dropped to less than 0.3 percent -among the lowest in the world. In a country with large labor market imbalances,...

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