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The role of financial inclusion in improving household well-being
Sakyi-Nyarko, Carlos; Ahmad, Ahmad Hassan; Green, … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 8, pp. 1606-1632
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464042
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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated
Schiff, Maurice - 2006
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration's impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267281
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Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration’s impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762256
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The Economic and Social Determinants of Migrants' Well-Being during the Global Financial Crisis
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018
This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816544
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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2013
We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. Individuals differ both in skills and migration costs, which are continuously distributed. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328936
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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262447
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Globalization and Human Capital Formation
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent – which is known from other contexts –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262452
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Income taxes, property values and migration
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267489
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Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703057
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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. Individuals differ both in skills and migration costs, which are continuously distributed. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106698