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. This reverses the conventional wisdom that congestion costs tend to inhibit free migration policies. …
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We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita … integration, by allowing for migration in response to wage differentials, changes the wage structures and, therefore, the … evidence concerning international migration, the widening international income dispersion, the narrowing national income …
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We show that how technological innovations and migration costs interact to shape the space-economy. Regardless of the …
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We propose a model where imperfect matching between firms and workers on local labor markets leads to incentives for spatial agglomeration. We show that the occurrence of spatial agglomeration depends on initial size differences in terms of both number of workers and firms. Allowing for dynamics...
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Using a matched employer-employee database for Italy we look at the spatial distribution of wages across provinces. This rich database allows us to contribute at opening the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of the interaction among economic agents, both...
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effects of labor migration between two countries in the presence of free trade and perfect capital mobility. We show that any … wage differential between countries sets up a continuous flow of migration of the workforce from the "low wage" country to … and unstable patterns of migration between countries and sectors and show that divergence as well as flow reversals are …
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effect, differential fertility effect and tradability effect. Finally, we consider the migration dimension and discuss two …
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two main effects: first, it makes the formal sector more attractive to migration and second, it affects capital …
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This paper provides a model of nonlinear income taxation in a context of international mobility. We consider two identical countries, in which each government chooses non-cooperatively redistributive taxes. It is shown that when skilled workers can move at low cost, the income taxation does not...
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heterogeneous in their migration costs. We find that the large countries can be destination of migrants for sufficiently high …
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