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The welfare magnet hypothesis and the welfare take-up of migrants : welfare benefits are not a key determinant of migration

Giulietti, Corrado - 2014

Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the basis of the relative generosity of the receiving nation's social benefits. Even when immigrants are found to use welfare more intensively than natives, the gap is mostly...

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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014

The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source...

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Income of immigrants and their return : both low- and high-income immigrants stay for a relatively short time

Bijwaard, Govert - 2015

The majority of immigrants stay only temporarily in the host country. When many migrations are temporary, it is important to know who leaves and who stays, and why. The key questions for the host country are whether immigrants are net contributors to the welfare system and whether migrants...

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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges

Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 7, pp. 1-20

) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP … to unleash the potential of migration for the German economy. …

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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges

Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP … to unleash the potential of migration for the German economy. …

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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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How does economic integration change personal income taxation? : Evidence from a new index of potential labor mobility

Protte, Benjamin - 2012

In this paper, I estimate the effect of increasing labor mobility on personal income tax schedules. I combine rich data on effective personal income tax levels in a panel of OECD countries for the period 1986-2005 with a new Index of Potential Labor Mobility. This index allows to tackle issues...

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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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Population aging, migration spillovers, and the decline in interstate migration

Karahan, Fatih; Rhee, Serena - 2014

Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …

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Mobility and reliefs for traveling expenses to work

Wrede, Matthias - 1999

This paper proposes the question whether or not traveling expenses to work should be deductible from the income tax base. In order to answer this question, a simple model of (im-) perfect household and worker mobility is employed. The focus of the analysis is on the efficient use of land and the...

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