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relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
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capital), and the volume of migration (of both skill types), to be higher in the competitive regime than in the coordinated … positive if the (state variable) the capital stock is within a certain range, or zero, otherwise. Migration share of native … level, otherwise. In the case of private saving only regime, the migration share is intermediate level. Thus, migration …
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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. …
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An extensive literature has documented the incentive effect of emigration prospects in terms of human capital … discrete choice models. Incentive effects of emigration prospects are also found when accounting for the potential endogeneity … the incentive effect of emigration prospects. …
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factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may … nullify the 'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor migration is governed not only by net-of-tax factor rewards, but rather … importantly also by the benefits that the welfare state provides. The paper analyzes fiscal competition with and without migration …
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We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise,...
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This paper investigates the impact of emigration on the political choice regarding the size of the welfare state …. Mobility has two countervailing effects: the political participation effect and the tax base effect. With emigration, the … political majority has to take into account that emigration reduces tax revenues and thereby affects the feasible set of …
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capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to …
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Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...
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In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are … in the number of migrants from the EU accession countries will lead to higher labour market and migration dynamics …
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