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Women's rights and the gender migration gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494071
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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis
Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017
On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646454
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The effect of Brexit on British workers living in the EU
Venâncio, Ana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022
The effect of Brexit is an important topic in the European and British political agendas. This study examines the perspective of the EU countries, with regards how British citizens working in an EU country reacted to the end of free movement of workers. Employing synthetic control methods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168044
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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013
Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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Tax credits, income support and partnership decisions
Anderberg, Dan (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624020
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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956277
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404287
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Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding … is that migration, and particularly skilled immigration, is a strong and robust driver of productive knowledge diffusion …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539071
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Effects of immigration on labour markets and government budgets : an overview
Leibfritz, Willi; O'Brien, Paul Sherlock; Dumont, … - 2003
immigration on labour markets and government budgets. It also discusses migration policies from an economic point of view. By … bringing together a bulk of international literature on labour market and fiscal effects of migration in a systematic way it … provides a framework for assessing the economic effects of migration and improving the knowledge base for migration policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506210