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In this paper we develop a framework for studying tax competition and local public goods supply in a setting where real and fiscal externalities interact with local democracy. We use the framework (a) to analyse if there is any reason to believe that local autonomy generally will give a tax race...
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We develop a model to explain two-way migration of high-skilled individuals between countries that are similar in their … economic characteristics. High-skilled migration is explained by a combination of two features: In both countries there is a … firms for hiring workers of similar ability. In the presence on migration cost, high-skilled workers self-select into the …
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World migration community covers 3% of the world population, in Europe it is around 7% and 4% in the Czech Republic …. Europe is an important target for migration stimulated by the work offer but also by wars and natural disasters. In Western … migrants. Recently, we have faced new trends in international mobility which are different from traditional migration flows …
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Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … migrants may rise when temporary migration policies are adopted. …
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …
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The paper explores the impact of migrant remittances on local economic development in a locality where more than half of the households have been recipients for at least five years. The study has taken place in rural Zimbabwe and uses an ethnographic method devised for this research. The method...
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
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some dimensions of poverty. My results take into account the likely endogeneity among migration, remittances, and …
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A great deal has been written about the effects of foreign migration on the wages of U.S. workers. However, little is … known about the effects of Mexican interstate immigration (i.e., internal Mexican migration) and international return … migration of labor and foreign capital on wages and employment in the maquiladora industry in Mexico. We examine these issues by …
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El objetivo del artículo es evaluar un modelo de Dinámica Demográfica, basado en la población esperada y observada, a partir de la dinámica de la población del Valle del Cauca, durante los periodos censales 1993 y 2005. Los resultados arrojan que existe un desfase de sobrevaloración de...
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