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The mobility challenge for growth and integration in Europe

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128229

Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu-por - 2012

sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in … intraprovincial non-hukou rural-urban migration, which may have made labor retention policies such as the small township strategy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616

The productivity effects of worker mobility between heterogeneous firms

Stockinger, Bastian; Wolf, Katja - 2016

Several empirical studies find that worker inflows from more productive or otherwise superior firms increase hiring firms' productivity. We conduct a similar analysis for Germany, using a unique linked employer-employee data set, and ranking sending and hiring establishments by their median...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435647

Circular migration : why resticting labor mobility can be counterproductive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

, creating a "brain drain" in the sending country. In reality, migration is typically temporary: Workers migrate, find employment … circular migration can be costly to both sending and receiving countries. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412353

The welfare magnet hypothesis and the welfare take-up of migrants : welfare benefits are not a key determinant of migration

Giulietti, Corrado - 2014

Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the basis of the relative generosity of the receiving nation's social benefits. Even when immigrants are found to use welfare more intensively than natives, the gap is mostly...

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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014

The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source...

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Tax deductibility of commuting expenses and residential land use with more than one center

Wrede, Matthias - 2003

This paper analyzes the treatment of commuting expenses by the income tax code from a normative and a positive point of view within a continuous space framework with endogenous residence choices and perfect labor mobility. As commuting expenses should never be deductible from the income tax base...

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Mobility and reliefs for traveling expenses to work

Wrede, Matthias - 1999

This paper proposes the question whether or not traveling expenses to work should be deductible from the income tax base. In order to answer this question, a simple model of (im-) perfect household and worker mobility is employed. The focus of the analysis is on the efficient use of land and the...

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Pareto efficiency of the pay-as-you-go pension system in a three-period-OLG model

Wrede, Matthias - 1998

The paper considers an unfunded linear pension system when workers make labor decisions more often than once in their life. To capture this feature, a three-period-overlapping-generations model is employed. On the one hand, the paper analyzes whether or not a Pay-as-you-go pension scheme is...

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Population aging, migration spillovers, and the decline in interstate migration

Karahan, Fatih; Rhee, Serena - 2014

Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423805

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