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EU Enlargement, Migration and the New Constitution

Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2004

The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western … Europe. Although migration is good in principle, as it yields gains from trade and specialization for all countries involved …

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Welfare Migration: Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Good Measure of its Economics Impact on the Welfare of the Native-Born Population?

Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2004

Migration of young workers (as distinct from retirees), even when driven in by the generosity of the welfare state …, slows down the trend of increasing dependency ratio. But, even though low-skill migration improves the dependency ratio, it … estimate the fiscal burden that low-skill migration imposes on the fiscal system. However, an important message of this paper …

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The Influence of Labor Taxes on the Migration of Skilled Workers

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina Maria - CESifo - 2008

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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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008

different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406154

Turkish Delight – Does Turkey’s accession to the EU bring economic benefits?

Lejour, Arjan M.; Mooij, Ruud A. de - CESifo - 2004

Turkey triggered by EU-membership; and (iii) migration in response to the free movement of workers. Overall, the …

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Educating Europe

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2004

The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2002

This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent...

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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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Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2005

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …

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EU Enlargement, Migration, and Lessons from German Unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 1999

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later … reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces turns out to be effici e nt, migration should not be artificially …

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