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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance : findings from english firms and cities

Nathan, Max - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning …

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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?

Boerner, Kira; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005

the total effect of migration depends on the initial income distribution in the economy. Our results also contribute to …

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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Optimal taxation under regional inequality : conference paper

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Malte - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete

- enhancing migration margin, we explore the implications of regional productivity differences for the design of optimal tax …. With intra-regional migration marginal tax rates tend to be reduced and negative tax rates are possible. Our simulations …

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Behavioural responses on natural disasters : empirical evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2014

August 2002 flood in central Europe. Based on the GSOEP dataset we study individual saving behaviour and migration decisions …

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Motives behind the mobility of university graduates : a study of three German universities

Proff, Sidonia von; Duschl, Matthias; Brenner, Thomas - 2014

The mobility of university graduates is influenced by economic factors and individual attitudes. The paper at hand focuses on individual characteristics influencing the spatial preferences of graduates from three universities in Hesse (Germany). Using survey data from prospective graduates in...

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Evolution of long distance students' mobility : the role of the air transport service in Italy

Cattaneo, Mattia; Malighetti, Paolo; Paleari, Stefano; … - 2015

Introduction There is a large consensus that the amount of human capital in areas plays a crucial role for regional economic development. Previous evidence on regional economics highlight that a higher concentration of human capital is associated with more population, employment growth, income...

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Spatial and social mobility

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2015 - This version: February 28, 2015, preliminary and incomplete

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area which is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential...

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Migration, allocation and re-allocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015

whether migration contribute to change the labor market status of immigrants (like in job, in education, unemployed or outside … immigrated for the first time. To measure the specific effects of migration on change of labor market status, we have compared …. Domestic migration has to a certain extent been beneficial for immigrants to obtain employment or to carry out an education …

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Natural disaster, migration, and regional development

Ikazaki, Daisuke - 2015

economic activities and migration. Section 2 introduces a simple matching theory model based on previous studies. This theory …. Results show that once migration and a population drain occur, such fiscal policies might deteriorate the regional economy …

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