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How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Cycle Location Choices

Kotlikoff, Laurence - 1991

Locational choice is one of the fundamental exercises of consumer sovereignty. When regions (or localities within regions) specify different tax rates or supply different amounts of public goods, they distort individuals' location choices. This paper models and measures for the U.S. and New...

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 2014

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

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Location Choice, Portfolio Choice

Branikas, Ioannis - 2017

Households hold nondiversified stock portfolios of firms headquartered near their city of residence. Explanations assign a causal role for proximity, either in generating an informational advantage or a familiarity bias. Empirical analyses assume households locate randomly, even though they...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 1997

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …

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Immigration and the Welfare State : Immigrant Participation in Means- Tested Entitlement Programs

Borjas, George J. - 1995

This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...

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Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration

Özek, Umut - 2016

We make use of a new data source - matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida - to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...

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Quits, Moves, Spatial Equilibrium and Workplace Relocation

Zax, Jeffrey S. - 1987

When worker commutes are suboptimal, quits and moves are related. Either a quit, a move, or both can achieve an optimal commute. However, with fixed costs to quitting and moving, a quit or move alone is more likely than both together. Payroll records of a firm which relocated from the central...

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Household Location Decisions and the Value of Climate Amenities

Sinha, Paramita - 2015

We value climate amenities by estimating a discrete location choice model for US households. The utility of each metropolitan statistical area (MSA) depends on location-specific amenities, earnings opportunities, housing costs, and the cost of moving to the MSA from the household head's...

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Tax Benefits to Housing and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption

Albouy, David - 2014

Tax benefits to owner-occupied housing provide incentives for housing consumption, offsetting weaker disincentives of the property tax. These benefits also help counter the penalty federal taxes impose on households who work in productive high-wage areas, but reinforce incentives to consume...

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