Pro Jahr verlassen 0,8 Prozent der Bevölkerung Deutschland, das sind etwa 650 000 Personen. Das Medienecho auf diese Auswanderung ist überzogen schrill, denn die meisten Auswanderer haben bereits einen Migrationshintergrund und setzen ihre Migration fort oder kehren in ihre Heimatländer...

While there is extensive literature on the determinants of migration and its microeconomic effects, the New Zealand theoretical or empirical literature specifically examining the effects of migration on economic growth is not as comprehensive. In New Zealand there has been an implicit underlying...

The Tiebout hypothesis suggests that people who migrate from more to less redistributive countries are more negative towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences might also reflect self-interest. We present a model...

Are migrants self-selected and sorted according to their views about what constitutes a fair level of redistribution? A major challenge in answering this question is that fairness concerns and self-interest are intertwined. We present a theoretical framework that allows us to test whether...

This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of originamong those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a strikinggender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing incomeredistribution, while majority of women...

The Tiebout hypothesis suggests that people who migrate from more to less redistributive countries are more negative towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences might also reflect self-interest. We present a model...

Die Studie "EU-Erweiterung und Arbeitskräftemigration" wurde vom ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung , München, im Forschungsbereich Sozialpolitik und A r - beitsmärkte erstellt und im Dezember 2000 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung ....

Having a family member migrant reduces not only the labor force participation but also the job satisfaction of those left behind. Migrants’ relatives build their expectations on earnings from migration through received information on the wage distribution in the destination country either from...