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Education and pro-family altruistic discrimination against foreigners : five-country comparisons

Sasaki, Shusaku; Okuyama, Naoko; Ōgaki, Masao; Ōtake, … - 2017

foreigners. However, the degree of discrimination differs across countries. It is lowest in Germany and largest in Japan; the … altruism toward foreigners compared to toward family members. However, in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, people with higher … education levels tend to discriminate against foreigners. The degree of discrimination is insensitive to the educational …

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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Inducing human capital formation : migration as a substitute for subsidies

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001

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Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004

This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....

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A Theory of Migration as a Response to Occupational Stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2013

Drawing on the literature of occupational status and social distance, a theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid “social humiliation.” A closed-economy general equilibrium model that incorporates occupational status and examines the interaction between the...

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Immigration and National Wages : Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2008

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...

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The Immigration Paradox : Alien Workers and Distributive Justice

Chang, Howard F. - 2010

The immigration of relatively unskilled workers poses a fundamental problem for liberals. While from the perspective of the economic welfare of natives, the optimal policy would be to admit these aliens as guest workers, this policy would violate liberal ideals. These ideals would treat these...

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Sectoral Impact of Free Intra-EU Migration in the Presence of Unemployment Benefits

Marques, Helena; Metcalf, Hugh - 2008

This paper builds a multi-sector, three country (centre and two peripheries), New Economic Geography model, where industrial sectors differ in the degree of scale economies and skill-intensity. The model incorporates, for the first time in this class of models, payments to the unemployed in each...

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Immigration Restriction as Redistributive Taxation : Working Women and the Costs of Protectionism in the Labor Market

Chang, Howard F. - 2009

In this paper, I argue that tax and transfer policies are more efficient than immigration restrictions as instruments for raising the after-tax incomes of the least skilled native workers. Policies to protect these native workers from immigrant competition in the labor market do no better at...

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Education Policy and Tax Competition with Imperfect Student and Labor Mobility (Revised Version, Feb. 2010)

Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010

This paper analyzes the effect of increasing human-capital mobility -- i.e. student and labor mobility -- on net tax revenues when revenue-maximizing governments compete for human capital by means of income tax rates and amenities offered to students (positive expenditure) or rather tuition fees...

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