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A positive theory of geographic mobility and social insurance
Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente; … - 2002
This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary e.ects of...
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Delayed integration of mobile labor : a principle for coordinating taxation, social security, and social assistance
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2001
Delayed Integration is a rule for assigning mobile individuals to jurisdictions for the purpose of taxation, social security, and social assistance. It is a compromise between the Origin Principle and the Employment Principle. Individuals are assigned to the jurisdiction to which they move only...
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Migrants and firms : evidence from China
Imbert, Clement; Seror, Marlon; Zhang, Yifan; … - 2018
This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data …
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Relaxing Hukou : increased labor mobility and China's economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …
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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation
Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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History, expectations, and public policy : economic development in Eastern Germany
Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M. - 2010 - This version: September 14, 2010
Motivated by the process of economic development in Eastern Germany since the German reunification we set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level. The model features multiple...
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang (contributor); Krieger, Tim (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612669
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Dutch disease and the mitigation effect of migration : evidence from Canadian provinces
Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge; Vermeulen, Wessel N. - 2012
This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural resource sectors. We first derive predicted changes in the size of the non-tradable sector from a small general-equilibrium model à la Obstfeld-Rogoff, supplemented by a resource...
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Pension-induced rigidities in the labor market for school leaders
Koedel, Cory; Grissom, Jason A.; Ni, Shawn X.; … - 2011
Educators in public schools in the United States are typically enrolled in defined-benefit pension plans, which penalize across-plan mobility. We use administrative data from Missouri to examine how the mobility penalties affect the labor market for school leaders. We show that pension borders...
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