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-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine … the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing …
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voter.The paper models the host country stylistically as a member of the core of an economic union (i.e., a core EU welfare …. The source country is modeled as an accession country to an economic union (i.e., through the EU enlargement treaty), with …
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and recovery patterns for key EU members like Germany and France, within the Eurozone, were similar. However, after the … system than the Eurozone politically weakly integrated system. The disparity is traced to the EU's and Eurozone's special …
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of adjustment to these shocks are then compared to the results from US regional data. We find that the underlying shocks … are significantly more idiosyncratic across EC countries than across US regions, which may indicate that the EC will find … neighbors, experience shocks of similar magnitude and cohesion as the US regions. EC countries also exhibit a slower response to …
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among the EU 15 and EU 10 in the enlarged European Union, as of 2004. We also demonstrate that the notion that the mere …
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on source-host, OECD-EU country pairs in the year 2000. The identification strategy is to use the decomposition the … EU, and another group, quot;policy-controlled migrationquot; group, the pairs from non-EU countries into the EU. We find …
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Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...
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of migration. We argue that the differences between the U.S. and the EU - the degree of coordination among the member …
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Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...
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the bottom. This behavior has been perhaps most pronounced in the EU-15 following the single market act of 1992. The 2004 … enlargement of the EU with 10 new entrants put a strong downward pressure on capital income taxation for the EU-15 countries. Tax …
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