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This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe …. We construct a panel dataset of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … number of tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top …
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of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …
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The Latin countries -- Italy, Portugal and Spain -- were industrial late-comers and only experienced mass emigration … purchasing-power-parity adjusted real wages) for twelve European countries to find that Latin emigration behavior was no … different than that of northwestern Europe: for example, Latin emigrant labor supplies were not relatively elastic, contrary to …
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The Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913) was among the largest migration episodes in history. During this period, the United States maintained open borders. Using a novel dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration while accounting for migrant selection across households...
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versions of his other critiques. His second argument that all the data from Latin America and much of the data from Africa …
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retirement. We test this prediction in a group of people—players in the National Football League (NFL)—whose income profile does …
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We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...
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Although a sizable fraction of the Puerto Rican-born population moved to the United States, the island also received large inflows of persons born outside Puerto Rico. Hence Puerto Rico provides a unique setting for examining how labor inflows and outflows coexist, and measuring the mirror-image...
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We use 1980 and 1990 Census data for 119 larger Metropolitan Statistical Areas to examine the effect of skill-group specific immigrant inflows on the location decisions of natives in the same skill group, and on the overall distribution of human capital. To control for unobserved skill-group...
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We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person …
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