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Dustmann, Christian - 2015

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...

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Income Taxation, Tuition Subsidies, and Choice of Occupation : Implications for Production Efficiency

Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2006

The desirability for production efficiency is re-examined in this study, where agents choose occupation based on lifetime income net of tuition costs. Efficient revenue raising implies that the government should trade off efficiency in production for efficiency in intertemporal consumption, as...

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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms

Gathmann, Christina - 2014

Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more … reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification, we exploit discontinuities in …

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Tax Incentives, Bequest Motives, and the Demand for Life Insurance : Evidence from Two Natural Experiments in Germany

Sauter, Nicolas - 2010

-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that …

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Cash Flow Duration and the Term Structure of Equity Returns

Weber, Michael - 2016

The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month … lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level … for short-sale constraints, and find the negative cross-sectional relationship between cash flow duration and returns is …

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The Lifecycle of the 47%

Fullerton, Don - 2016

We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households …

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How Much Do Means-Tested Benefits Reduce the Demand for Annuities?

Butler, Monika - 2011

We analyze the effect of means-tested benefits on annuitization decisions. Most industrialized countries provide a subsistence level consumption floor in old age, usually in the form of means-tested benefits. The availability of such means-tested payments creates an incentive to cash out...

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Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration

Beine, Michel - 2012

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...

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Managing Migration Through Conflicting Policies : An Option-Theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...

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Shall We Keep the Highly Skilled at Home? The Optimal Income Tax Perspective

Simula, Laurent - 2011

We examine how allowing individuals to emigrate to pay lower taxes abroad changes the optimal non-linear income tax scheme in a Mirrleesian economy. An individual emigrates if his domestic utility is less than his utility abroad net of migration costs, utilities and costs both depending on...

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