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Spatial mobility and location choices of highly skilled workers : European Regional Science Association Conference, August-September, 2011, Barcelona

Miguélez, Ernest; Moreno, Rosina - 2011 - Very preliminary version, First draft: February 2010, This draft: March 2011

The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the determinants of geographical mobility and location choices of … a preponderant role in mediating the mobility patterns of inventors across the European geography. …

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Human capital and firm relocation : why footloose firms are a rare breed

Morkute, Gintare - 2015

This paper examines the role that human capital plays in firm's strategic decisions. It focuses on long-distance corporate relocations which present certain trade-offs in terms of human capital and modifies firms' relationship with the labour force. It is assessed to what extent having (an...

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Business relocations in the Netherlands : why do firms move, and where do they go?

Kronenberg, Kristin - 2011

This study analyzes determinants of business relocation and identifies regional characteristics which attract relocating firms, using register data provided by Statistics Netherlands. Results indicate that the relocation decisions of firms are not only influenced by firm- and location-specific...

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Transfer taxes and household mobility : distortion on the housing or labour market?

Hilber, Christian; Lyytikäinen, Teemu - 2015

We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. The UK (until 2014 …) provided an ideal setting to explore the impact of housing transfer taxes on mobility decisions. This is partly because the … to isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other determinants of mobility. In our core analysis we use data from the …

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Regional commuting in Italy : do temporary contracts affect the decision?

Parenti, Angela; Tealdi, Cristina - 2015

In this paper we study how the determinants of regional commuting in Italy have evolved in the past fifteen years. Using labour force data from 1992 to 2008 we estimate a model where the probability of commuting is regressed on a wide set of individual, job, firm and regional characteristics....

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Student mobility : recruitment to studies and supply of post-graduates in a geographical perspective

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2013

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The labor market impact of mobility restrictions : evidence from the West Bank

Calì, Massimiliano; Miaari, Sami H. - 2013

-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects we exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was … exogenous to local labor market conditions. These barriers to mobility have a significant negative effect on employment, wages … are driven mainly by checkpoints and only a tiny portion of the effects is due to direct restrictions on workers' mobility …

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A new career in a new town : job search methods and regional mobility of unemployed workers

Morescalchi, Andrea - 2016

process. Since geographic mobility can importantly compensate for regional shocks and it is considered as one of the ways to …

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Couples, careers, and spatial mobility

Nassal, Lea Maria; Paul, Marie - 2021

We examine the employment and earnings effects of long-distance moves for married couples based on a new administrative data set from Germany. Using difference-in-difference propensity score matching, we estimate the average treatment effect for moving couples while precisely accounting for...

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The mobile tax bill : how mobile is impacted by sector-specific taxes

Castells, Pau; Pedrós, Xavier; Sivakumaran, Mayuran - 2019

Many developing countries have introduced sector-specific taxes on the consumption of mobile services, which apply on top of general taxes, and therefore discourage the positive externalities that have been estimated to be associated with the use of mobile technology on workers' productivity and...

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