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Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond : Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications
Kennan, John - 2017
In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the levels in the existing member countries. Citizens of these newly-admitted countries were subsequently free to take jobs anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number...
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Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills : Theory and Evidence
Hermo, Santiago; Päällysaho, Miika M.; Seim, David G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
data from Sweden. Combining data from exams taken at military enlistment with earnings records from the tax register, we …
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
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Do Enlarged Fiscal Deficits Cause Inflation : The Historical Record
Bordo, Michael D. - 2020
In this paper we survey the historical record for over two centuries on the connection between expansionary fiscal policy and inflation. As a backdrop, we briefly lay out several theoretical approaches to the effects of fiscal deficits on inflation: the earlier Keynesian and monetarist...
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
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Fiscal and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 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"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462431
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Vying for Foreign Direct Investment : A EU-type Model of Tax Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2006
This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466680
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Three Current Account Balances : A "Semi-Structuralist" Interpretation
Chinn, Menzie D. - 2005
Three large current account imbalances -- one deficit (the United States) and two surpluses (Japan and the Euro area) -- are subjected to a minimalist structural interpretation. Though simple, this interpretation enables us to assess how much of each of the imbalances require a real exchange...
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Trade Invoicing in the Accession Countries : Are They Suited to the Euro?
Goldberg, Linda - 2005
The accession countries to the euro area are increasingly binding their economic activity, external and internal, to the euro area countries. One aspect of this phenomenon concerns the currency invoicing of international trade transactions, where accession countries have reduced their use of the...
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