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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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This paper investigates the effects of international migration restrictions on communities' capacity to absorb income … migration as an adaptive strategy. Relying on a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages, we use a triple difference …
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This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …
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taxation on the migration decisions of the entire working population in a high-tax source country, Finland. We find that the … average domestic elasticity of migration with respect to the domestic tax rate is very small (around 0.0005). We also examine … the income gradient of the semi-elasticity of migration, shown to be the key sufficient statistic in Lehmann et al. (2014 …
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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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, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … of migration. …
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migration on the shape and magnitude of redistribution policies that are determined in a political economy equilibrium; at the … same time, we address the question whether the level of migration, when not restricted, is higher or lower in this welfare …
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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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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
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We study the effect of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath on migration intentions of the Egyptian youth. We … Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and combine it with data on migration intentions from the Harmonized Survey of … migration intentions of youth, especially young men. Single women did not change their migration intentions, mainly due to their …
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