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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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Human capital investment with competitive labor search
Kaas, Leo; Zink, Stefan - 2008
We study human capital accumulation in an environment of competitive search. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is socially desirable. A higher level of employment risk in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268607
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Migration, remittances and educational outcomes: The case of Haiti
Bredl, Sebastian - 2009
receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the … effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly modeled in previous literature. The results suggest that remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301373
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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador
Calero, Carla; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - 2008
remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … on source countries of remittances and regional variation in the availability of bank offices that function as formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268678
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Heterogeneidades em receitas orçamentárias, eficiência e seus determinantes: Evidências para municípios brasileiros em 2010
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2012
Distribution of tax revenue among municipalities - which are constitutionally official federal entities in Brazil - is highly unequal vis-à-vis their demands of public services. Given conurbation processes and intense urbanization in the second half of the past century, some municipalities...
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Öffentliche Haushalte stehen 2008/2009 auf der Kippe: Fünf Fragen an Florian Zinsmeister
Wittenberg, Erich; Zinsmeister, Florian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 37, pp. 533
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Short- and long-run tax elasticities: the case of the Netherlands
Wolswijk, Guido - 2007
This paper provides estimates for the base elasticities of Dutch taxes, paying particular attention to differences between short-and long-term elasticities, and allowing for asymmetric adjustment. Estimates are presented for five tax categories for the period 1970-2005, after making appropriate...
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Firms as tax collectors
Garriga, Pablo; Tortarolo, Dario - 2022
We show that delegating tax collection to large firms can help build tax capacity in weak-enforcement settings. We exploit two reforms in Argentina that dramatically expanded and subsequently reduced turnover tax withholding by firms. Combining firm-to-firm data with regression discontinuity and...
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