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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …, particularly in Europe. Finally, we ask whether greater international coordination could produce better outcomes for refugee …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …

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Fiscal and Migration Competition

Razin, Asaf - 2010

It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...

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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 …

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Migration and Fiscal Externality : Us vs. Europe

Razin, Assaf - 2022

The paper compares migration policy and welfare state generosity between America and Europe. There is more selective … may explain in part these US-Europe differences in policies …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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Forced Migration and Human Capital : Evidence from Post-Wwii Population Transfers

Becker, Sascha O. - 2018

We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale migration. Poles were forced to move from the Kresy territories in the East (taken over by the USSR)...

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Immigrants' and Native Workers : New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette - 2013

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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The Political Economy of Trade and International Labor Mobility

Galiani, Sebastian - 2015

We explore the political economy of trade and migration policies in several models of international trade. We show that in a Ricardian world, free trade and no international labor mobility is a Nash equilibrium outcome, but free trade and free international labor mobility is not. The result...

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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers : Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas - 2018

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...

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Migration and the Welfare State : Dynamic Political-Economy Theory

Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim; Suwankiri, Ben - 2021

We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state, featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner to capture the essence of...

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