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Taxation and Internal Migration : Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates

Liebig, Thomas - 2006

We investigate the relationship between income tax rate variation and internal migration for the unique case of Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level results in enough variation to permit analysis of their influence on migration. Specifically, using...

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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment : Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

relative net demand shock against the low skilled (like the US) during this period. It turns out that only workers with an … educational level below apprenticeship were affected by such a shock. Furthermore, I test whether wages reacted flexibly to this … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …

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