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Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, as well as complementary country level...

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Do co-worker networks increase or decrease productivity differences? An agent-based model

Lõrincz, László - 2021

Do labor mobility, and co-worker networks contribute to convergence or divergence between regions? Based on the previous literature, labor mobility contributes to knowledge transfer between firms. Therefore, mobility may contribute to decreasing productivity differences, while limited mobility...

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A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations

Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar; … - 2014

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which … capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute …

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Tax Deductibility of Commuting Expenses and Residential Land Use with more than one Center

Wrede, Matthias - 2003

This paper analyzes the treatment of commuting expenses by the income tax code from a normative and a positive point of view within a continuous space framework with endogenous residence choices and perfect labor mobility. As commuting expenses should never be deductible from the income tax base...

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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu-por - 2012

sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in … intraprovincial non-hukou rural-urban migration, which may have made labor retention policies such as the small township strategy …

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Cultural identity, mobility, and decentralization

Schild, Christopher-Johannes; Wrede, Matthias - 2010

the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers … oversupply of regional culture under decentralization. If migration affects productivity, the basic result of oversupply may be …

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Does emigration benefit the stayers? Evidence from EU enlargement

Elsner, Benjamin - 2012

Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK...

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The productivity effects of worker mobility between heterogeneous firms

Stockinger, Bastian; Wolf, Katja - 2016

Several empirical studies find that worker inflows from more productive or otherwise superior firms increase hiring firms' productivity. We conduct a similar analysis for Germany, using a unique linked employer-employee data set, and ranking sending and hiring establishments by their median...

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Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment

Arellano-Bover, Jaime - 2019

One of the largest population displacement episodes in the U.S. took place in 1942, when over 110,000 persons of Japanese origin living on the West Coast were forcibly sent away to ten internment camps for one to three years. Having lost jobs and assets, after internment they had to reassess...

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The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers: Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas; Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2020

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...

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