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Migration and Welfare State : Why is America Different from Europe?
Razin, Assaf - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047780
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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006
Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779612
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Culture, Institutions and Democratization
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023685
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The Economic Benefits from Immigration
Borjas, George J. - 2010
Natives benefit from immigration mainly because of production complementarities between immigrant workers and other factors of production, and these benefits are larger when immigrants are sufficiently `different' from the stock of native productive inputs. The available evidence suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139806
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101810
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Migration into the Welfare State : Tax and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2013
, facing migration from the rest of the world.Each host country in a competitive regime balances on the margin these gains and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077641
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Immigration and Self-Selection
Borjas, George J. - 2010
presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of this marketplace. The theory of immigration presented in this paper describes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141195
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William - 2014
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data … exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii …) lobbying status is highly persistent over time. Estimating a model of a firm's decision to engage in lobbying, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067182
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Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security : Political-Economy Effect
Razin, Assaf - 2010
The pay-as-you-go social security system, increasingly burdened by dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants whose birth rates exceed those of the native born birth. The paper examines adynamic political-economy mechanism through which the social security system influences the young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152617
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The Welfare State and Migration : A Dynamic Analysis of Political Coalitions
Razin, Assaf - 2015
We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031031