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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959810
We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …
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migration behaviour. Prior to 2017, offshore investment returns for 'non-doms' – individuals tax-resident in the UK but with … tax system, reducing their effective net-of-average-tax rate by 18%. We find that emigration responses were modest: our … central estimate is that the emigration rate increases by 0.26 percentage points for a 1% decline in the net-of-tax rate, and …
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …
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While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one … the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …
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intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …
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-skilled individuals when credit constraints and other migration barriers are unlikely to be binding. …
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