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Do preferences for urban amenities really differ by skill?

Arntz, Melanie; Brüll, Eduard; Lipowski, Cäcilia - 2021

City-level policies often aim at attracting skilled workers by improving urban amenities. However, due to endogeneity problems, studies relying on revealed preferences have difficulties in providing evidence for the basic premise that skilled workers place a higher value on urban amenities than...

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Skills and the pattern of international migration

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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

dataset that includes information on almost every Italian citizen living abroad. Since Italy takes a middle ground in terms of … elasticities, we find that sizable increases in the amount of redistribution in Italy have small effects on the skill composition …

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Immigration and the occupational choice of natives : a factor proportions approach

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2011

This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …