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Climate change and migration : a dynamic model

Mason, Charles F. - 2016 - This version: October 9, 2016

second country, from which a steady stream of greenhouse gases occur. If this migration imposes costs on the emitting country …, then migration induces a sort of pseudo carbon tax.via political economic forces. This pseudo tax creates an incentive for …), is smaller in the presence of migration. I discuss various comparative dynamics, for both the path of production and the …

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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...

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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018

This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both...

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Global collaborative patents

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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Dismantling the "Jungle" : migrant relocation and extreme voting in France

Vertier, Paul; Viskanic, Max - 2018 - This version: January 9, 2018

Can a small scale inflow of migrants affect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the Calais "Jungle" to temporary migrant-centers (CAOs) in France affected the results of the 2017 presidential election. Using an instrumental variables approach that relies on the...

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Behavioral responses to wealth taxation : evidence from a Norwegian reform

Iacono, Roberto; Smedsvik, Bård - 2024

weighted mass of wealth taxpayers in the treated municipality. Migration effects of the reform dominate: internal mobility of … level, they do not suggest a large-scale exodus at the national level, indicating that migration to avoid wealth taxation is … taxation, and negligible out-migration rates. …

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Moving out of the comfort zone : how cultural norms affect attitudes toward immigration

Giesing, Yvonne; Kauder, Björn; Mergele, Lukas; … - 2024

We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany. Students who moved from East to West became more positive...

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Taxing mobile and overconfident top earners

Haufler, Andreas; Nishimura, Yukihiro - 2020

We set up a simple model of tax competition for mobile, highly-skilled and overconfident managers. Firms endogenously choose the compensation scheme for managers, which consists of a fixed wage and a bonus payment in the high state. Managers are overconfident about the probability of the high...

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Population sorting and human capital accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2021

’s human capital accumulation function in the periphery are incorporated. I show how migration affects the inter … help increase the per-capita human capital levels, if free uncontrolled migration leads to a reduction in human capital …

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Effects of emigration on gender norms in countries of origin

Azarnert, Leonid V.; Yakubenko, Slava - 2021

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender...

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