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Migration-regime liberalization and social security : political-economy effect
Razin, Asaf; Sand, Edith - 2009
The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...
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Too many migrants, too few services : a model of decision-making on immigration and integration with cultural distance : presented at CESifo Conference on Migration and the Welfare...
Verbon, Harrie; Meijdam, Lex - 2004
In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by unskilled and non-assimilated immigrants, and experiencing disutility due to the immigrant workers having a culture different from the native culture. Immigrants decide whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450666
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Product and labor market deregulation in unionized oligopoly with asymmetric countries
Egger, Hartmut; Meland, Frode - 2011
setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314549
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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018
causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both total refugee flows to the world and flows to donor countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794246
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450308
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Après nous le Déluge : fertility and the intensity of struggle against immigration
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
This paper is inspired by a puzzling empirical fact that despite the importance of controlling migration for their future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The present model analyzes this issue in the context of low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970307
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Migration and the welfare state : dynamic political-economy theory
Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Suwankiri, Benjarong - 2010
We model an overlapping-generations economy with two skill levels: skilled and unskilled. The welfare-state is modeled simply by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner. Therefore, some (the unskilled workers and old retirees) are net beneficiaries...
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Legalization and long-term outcomes of immigrant workers
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2024
This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
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Going deep : the trade and welfare effects of TTIP
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga - 2014
rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …
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Has creative destruction become more destructive?
Komlos, John - 2014
Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with the...
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