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Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities
Suedekum, Jens - 2004
workers move from the periphery to the core, but it is rather reinforced by migration. These theoretical predictions of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295389
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The Taxing Deed of Globalization
Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey; Strecker, Nora - 2016
We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and effective average labor income tax rates using a unique international database on income tax calculators. We find that due to increasing mobility of firms and high-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725459
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Migration, international trade and capital formation: Cause or effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, … - 2012
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as … well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two … countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for a disaggregated view of migration that distinguishes between different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289941
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Subsidizing education in the economic periphery: Another pitfall or regional policies?
Südekum, Jens - 2002
One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295551
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Subsidizing education in the economic periphery: Another pitfall of regional policies?
Suedekum, Jens - 2003
A very prominent instrument of regional policy is to foster education and human capital for-mation in economically lagging regions. However, this type of regional policy might actually hurt instead of help the recipient areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300173
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Regional effects of terrorism on tourism: Evidence from three Mediterranean countries
Drakos, Konstantinos; Kutan, Ali M. - 2001
A consumer-choice model developed by Enders, Sandler and Parise (1992) is utilized to study the regional effects of terrorism on competitors’ market shares in tourism sector where involved countries enjoy significant tourism activities but are subject to high frequency of terrorist attacks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301165
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Borders matter!: Regional integration in Europe and North America
Blum, Ulrich - 2001
We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structures where data allows to evaluate the level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This allows us to address to effects external to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305448
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Globalisation, Structural Change and Labour Productivity Growth in BRICS Economy
Mallick, Jagannath - 2015
Globalisation, has intensified the demand preference for quality labour, that embodies more knowledge and competency/skill to maximise the production in one hand, and it has also changed the life style and consumption behavior of the society on the other. As a consequence, this has led to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345546
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Middlemen: A Directed Search Equilibrium Approach
Watanabe, Makoto - 2012
This paper studies an intermediated market operated by middlemen with high inventory holdings. I present a directed search model in which middlemen are less likely to experience a stockout because they have the advantage of inventory capacity, relative to other sellers. The model explains why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326192
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GTAPINGAMS, version 9: Multiregional and small open economy models with alternative demand systems
Lanz, Bruno; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2016
This paper describes the implementation in GAMS of an economic equilibrium model based on the GTAP version 9 dataset. We call this model and the ancillary programming tools GTAPINGAMS, version 9. Relative to previous installments of GTAPINGAMS, an innovation in this model is that it can easily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957728