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; emigration ; redistribution ; brain drain ; education … redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
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redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269304
, we show that local governments responded to this migration shock with selective and persistent tax raises as well as … effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later. …
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I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data at the NUTS regional level from the European Labor Force Survey … welfare and put restrictions on migration. When migrants are mostly low-skilled (high-skilled), European citizens typically …
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welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …
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redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …
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This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how … these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining … workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing workforce, while …
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Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not … account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able … individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …
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