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The Effect of Income and Immigration Policies on International Migration

Ortega, Francesc - 2012

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...

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Per-Capita Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environmental Policies

Markusen, James R. - 2013

International trade policy analysis has tended to focus on the production side of general equilibrium, with policies such as a tariff or carbon tax affecting international and internal income distributions through a Heckscher-Ohlin nexus of factor intensities and factor endowments. Here I move...

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Measuring How Risk Tradeoffs Adjust with Income

Evans, Mary F. - 2010

Efforts to reconcile inconsistencies between theory and estimates of the income elasticity of the value of a …

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Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance

Chetty, Raj - 2008

Since Feldstein (1999), the most widely used method of calculating the excess burden of income taxation is to estimate the effect of tax rates on reported taxable income. This paper reevaluates the taxable income elasticity as a measure of excess burden when individuals can evade or avoid taxes....

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Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2014

Individuals that consume different baskets of goods are differentially affected by relative price changes caused by international trade. We develop a methodology to measure the unequal gains from trade across consumers within countries. The approach requires data on aggregate expenditures and...

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The Consumption Response to Income Changes

Jappelli, Tullio - 2010

restrictions that the theory imposes on the joint behavior of consumption and income growth, and combining realizations and …

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Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates

Saez, Emmanuel - 2021

This paper derives optimal income tax formulas using compensated and uncompensated elasticities of earnings with respect to tax rates. A simple formula for the high income optimal tax rate is obtained as a function of these elasticities and the thickness of the top tail of the income...

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Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin : A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples

Markusen, James R. - 2010

) by adding newly traded goods and services and that much of this new trade is in intermediates. I provide an extension of …

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Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium

Cravino, Javier - 2017

and services are traded with different intensities. Manufacturing trade reduces manufacturing prices worldwide, which … reduces manufacturing employment if manufactures and services are complements. We document that manufacturing production is …

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The Rise of the Service Economy

Buera, Francisco J. - 2010

market services. The theory is also consistent with a rising level of skill and skill premium, a rising relative price of … total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being … driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of skill-intensive services has risen, and this has coincided with a period of …

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