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Broadband Access, Telecommuting and the Urban-Rural Digital Divide
Song, Moohoun; Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
A unique data set on home use of computers and the Internet is used to investigate the tradeoffsbetween physically commuting to a work site and telecommuting from home via computers. Thestudy further investigates whether individuals who work from home receive greatercompensation relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360873
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Der beitragsfinanzierte Nulltarif - Ein Ansatz zur Finanzierung und Attraktivierung des Öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs
Seydewitz, Rolf; Tyrell, Markus - 1995
der Region Trier haben wir untersucht, welche potentiellen Auswirkungen von einem derartigen Konzept auf die Finanzen der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005851934
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The Influence of Taxes on Migration: Evidence from Switzerland
Liebig, Thomas; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen>
With decreasing migration costs and fiscal decentralisation on the policy agenda in variousOECD countries, the impact … of taxation on migration is of growing interest. Empirical studieson this topic have been limited due to a lack of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005852861
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Unemployment, Technology and the Welfare Effects of Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - University <Mannheim> / Department of Economics - 2003
This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a hostcountry with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005853730
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Renten und Zuwanderung - ein Überblick über neue Ergebnisse der Forschung
Krieger, Tim - Nordakademie <Elmshorn> - 2005
In der öffentlichen und politischen Debatte wird Zuwanderung als eine Möglichkeit diskutiert, das Problem der Alterung von Gesellschaften abzumildern. Gleichzeitig lassen sich zum Teil sehr starke Widerstände gegen Zuwanderung feststellen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005855628
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Migration Correlation: Definition and Efficient Estimation
Gagliardini, Patrick; Gourieroux, Christian - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2004
The aim of this paper is to explain why cross-sectional estimated migration correlations displayed in the academic and … a model with stochastic migration in which the parameters of interest, that are migration correlations, are precisely … defined. The impossibility of estimating consistently the migration correlations from cross-sectional data only is emphasized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858516
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THE BAZAAR EFFECT, UNBUNDLING OFCOMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, AND MIGRATION
Kohler Wilhelm - CESifo GmbH <München> - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaareffect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a modelwhere Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments ofproduction, I compare a trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858921
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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870559
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The Roofs of Wren and Jones: A Seventeenth-Century Migration of Technical Knowledge from Italy to England
Valeriani, Simona - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Seventeenth-century English architecture saw the introduction of a new style, influenced by continental Europe, and driven, to a large extent, by the work of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. But along with the aesthetic novelty came novel building techniques; construction methods embedded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870927
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Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? Evidence from Migration Patterns across the Indian States
Libman, Aleksandr M.; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Yadav, … - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2011
samples westudy the intra-national migration in a federation with significant economic and political differencesbetween states … patterns of migration: lower numberof human rights violations acts as a “pull” factor for individual states only if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009005032