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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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equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … shortage in the economy. We show that countries that are poor at cultural assimilation are better positioned to take advantage …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …
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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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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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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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distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
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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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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...
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This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … to see to what extent labour income taxes and social security contributions determine migration flows. We collect data on … tax variables to estimate their effect on bilateral stocks of expatriates into OECD countries and the migration of skilled …
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