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emigration and conduct an empirical analysis of their impact, based on the Israeli tax reductions during 2004-2010. We find that … permanent tax reductions reduce the emigration flows from Israel. According to our findings, this effect is stronger for workers …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull … factors in destination countries, and find that larger emigration rates reduced firm creation and innovative start-ups. We …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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We investigate the consequences of a peaceful shift of power from one social group to another. Theoretically, we show that an individual's decision to stay put or migrate depends on the difference between the political preferences of groups and the change in tax. Empirically, we use the case of...
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Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain …? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
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This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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An extensive literature has documented the incentive effect of emigration prospects in terms of human capital … discrete choice models. Incentive effects of emigration prospects are also found when accounting for the potential endogeneity … the incentive effect of emigration prospects. …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...
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, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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