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Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...

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Moving out of the comfort zone : how cultural norms affect attitudes toward immigration

Giesing, Yvonne; Kauder, Björn; Mergele, Lukas; … - 2024

We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany. Students who moved from East to West became more positive...

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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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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration

Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2017

We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...

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Pareto improvement through unilateral matching of public good contributions : the role of commitment

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Peters, Wolfgang; … - 2014

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

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Existence and warr neutrality for matching equilibria in a public good economy : an aggregative game approach

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009

under which matching mechanisms in a public good economy lead to interior matching equilibria in which all agents make … is a crucial determinant for the existence of interior matching equilibria. In addition, we explore which matching … optimal solutions through matching. …

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Matching as a cure for underprovision of voluntary public good supply : analysis and an example

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2011

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner … results by a simple numerical example. -- public goods ; matching ; Pareto optimality …

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Potentially harmful international cooperation on global public good provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2012

-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …

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On human capital formation with exit options : comment and new results

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006

Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …

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Income taxes, property values, and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2003

locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a … are mobile, a tax on them induces little migration because the tax will reduce the rents on land inhabited by the rich. A …

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