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The optimal graduated minimum wage and social welfare
Danziger, Eliav; Danziger, Leif - 2018
This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal graduated minimum wage increases social welfare by increasing the low productivity workers'...
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Emigration and development : what are the links?
Murat, Marina - 2021
The ‘mobility transition’ hypothesis - with emigration first increasing and then decreasing as a country develops … grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 … emigration from low to middle-income countries declines as income increases, education improves or population growth slows down …
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On asymmetric migration patterns from developing countries
Acharyya, Rajat; Kar, Saibal - 2017
This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local … wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098854
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The long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between EU Member States
Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2019
This paper explores the long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between the 28 EU member states, covering the period 1995-2017. The cross-national, longitudinal analysis demonstrates that migration has had a positive and significant effect on development and economic growth in 28...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151125
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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124658
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Microsimulation analysis of optimal income tax reforms : an application to New Zealand
Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Hérault, Nicolas; Mok, Penny - 2018
This paper examines the optimal direction of marginal income tax reform in the context of New Zealand, which recently reduced its top marginal income tax rate to one of the lowest in the OECD. A behavioural microsimulation model is used, in which social welfare functions are defined in terms of...
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A political economy and voicing model of the institutional impact of brain drain, human capital, inequality and country size
Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021
Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent-seeking elite taxes residents and voicing affects the likelihood of regime change. We find that BD and h's impact on institutional quality (Q) are as follows: i) Q is a U-shaped function of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548126
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Ancestors, inter-generational transmission of attitudes, and corporate performance : evidence from the Italian Mass Migration
Florio, Erminia; Manfredonia, Stefano - 2021
and use emigration experience as a proxy for ancestors' risk propensity. We adopt an epidemiological approach complemented … emigration experience tend to perform better and to be more productive. In line with an inter-generational transmission of … attitudes hypothesis, we show a positive relationship between the emigration experience of a CEO's ancestors and alternative …
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Roots of inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a mar- ket economy, where earning differentials re ect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in...
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Is immigration good for Europe? : long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2024
The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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