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? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
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taxation on the migration decisions of the entire working population in a high-tax source country, Finland. We find that the … average domestic elasticity of migration with respect to the domestic tax rate is very small (around 0.0005). We also examine … the income gradient of the semi-elasticity of migration, shown to be the key sufficient statistic in Lehmann et al. (2014 …
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a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect … ; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...
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results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …
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For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...
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The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...
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Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cash-flow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...
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