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A note on brain gain and brain drain : permanent migration and education policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010

In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...

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Does income inequality lead to terrorism?

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016

We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide evidence, robust to various methodological changes (e.g., different dependent variables, instrumental-variable approaches), that higher levels of income inequality are...

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A crook is a crook ... but is he still a crook abroad? : on the effect of immigration on destination-country corruption

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Redlin, Margarete - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we explore different channels through which corruption...

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Political capitalism : the interaction between income inequality, economic freedom and democracy

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2015

In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...

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Measuring intra-generational redistribution in PAYG pension schemes

Klos, Jonas; Krieger, Tim; Stöwhase, Sven - 2020

In this paper, we propose a novel index for measuring intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension … schemes. Our index solely requires information on contributions and pension benefits of retirees, enabling us to measure intra-generational … individuals, who progressed into retirement in 2007-2015, to measure the level of intra-generational redistribution in the German …

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