Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 124
Cover Image
Explaining spatial patterns of foreign employment in Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2017
This paper investigates the main determinants of the regional representation of foreign employees in Germany. Since migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only for total foreign employment but also for the 35...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611136
Cover Image
Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy
Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Südekum, Jens - 2018
Many countries operate pronounced fiscal equalization schemes that shift tax revenue across jurisdictions. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, costly trade and labor mobility to carve out the aggregate implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844560
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130168
Cover Image
Policy-induced internal migration : an empirical investigation of the Canadian case
Day, Kathleen Mary (contributor);  … - 2005
We investigate the influence of public policy on interprovincial migration in Canada using new aggregated migration data for 1974-1996, the longest period studied so far. We consider the consequences of regional variation in a variety of policies, and also investigate the effects of certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297476
Cover Image
Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2020
We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388100
Cover Image
No place like home? : graduate migration in Germany
Haussen, Tina; Übelmesser, Silke - 2015
We empirically analyze sub-national migration of graduates in Germany and its determinants. Based on a longitudinal, representative survey-based dataset of students who graduated in the academic year 2004/2005, we observe the transition to the labor market and previous and subsequent migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343053
Cover Image
Spatial and social mobility
Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2015 - This version: December 14, 2015
This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area which is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406782
Cover Image
Express delivery to the suburbs : the effects of transportation in Europe's heterogeneous cities
Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Pasidis, Ilias; … - 2016
This paper provides evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of … suburbanization using a two-step panel approach. Our main results suggest that an additional highway ray displaced approximately 4% of … railways on average. However, railways did cause suburbanization those located in Central-North Europe. When employing the full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415085
Cover Image
Highways, market access, and spatial sorting
Fretz, Stephan; Parchet, Raphaël; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2017
We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then empirically analyze the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761580
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412765