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International Student Migration : A Partial Identification Analysis

Meango, Romuald - 2014

This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural decision model which reflects the importance of both the return to the investment and the budgetary constraint in the choice of the family. We circumvent the problem of endogeneity...

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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2021

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2012

differences in social mobility and persistence. …

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The Political Economics of Higher Education Finance for Mobile Individuals

Borck, Rainald; Uebelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - CESifo - 2012

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children’s ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous...

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Migration and Social Insurance

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina - CESifo - 2011

Bismarckian (with benefits related to past contributions). Labor mobility raises concerns about the sustainability of the most … differ in mobility cost (attachment to their native country). A Bismarckian insurance system is not affected by migration …

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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process

Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2009

We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...

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Strategic Tax Competition; Implications of National Ownership

Olsen, Trond; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2000

Two jurisdictions compete to capture the rents of a large multinational enterprise (MNE) which invests locally and which is partly owned by local investors. The MNE contributes to local welfare by tax payments and dividends, and it has private information about the efficiency of the operations...

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Young Liberals and Old Conservatives - Inequality, Mobility and Redistribution

Muren, Astri; Nyberg, Sten - CESifo - 2005

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …

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Artificial Time Inconsistency as a Remedy for the Race to the Bottom (new title: Delayed Integration as a Possible Remedy for the Race to the Bottom)

Weichenrieder, Alfons; Busch, Oliver - CESifo - 2005

A long-standing concern in the literature has been that household mobility implies a serious threat to the viability of …

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