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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...

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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010

In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...

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Income Taxes, Property Values, and Migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2003

locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a … are mobile, a tax on them induces little migration because the tax will reduce the rents on land inhabited by the rich. A …

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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - CESifo - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

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What Do Immigrants Value Most About Switzerland? Evidence of the Relative Importance of Income Taxes

Morger, Mario - CESifo - 2013

indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …

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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2012

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

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Long Term Care Partnerships: Are they 'Fit for Purpose'?

Bergquist, Savannah; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Swartz, Katherine - CESifo - 2015

The risk of high costs of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) is one of the largest uninsured risks for American families and a major challenge to the sustainability of Medicaid. To address the latter, the long-term care partnership (LTCP) program was an initiative designed to encourage...

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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris Van; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Brink, … - CESifo - 2009

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....

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Reducing the Excess Burden of Subsidizing the Stork: Joint Taxation, Individual Taxation, and Family Tax Splitting

Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2008

Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an...

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Labor Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - CESifo - 2008

This paper studies the implications of introducing child care in the human capital production function when assessing the effects of labor income taxation on growth. We develop an OLG model where formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements and we...

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