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Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
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In this paper, I estimate the effect of increasing labor mobility on personal income tax schedules. I combine rich data on effective personal income tax levels in a panel of OECD countries for the period 1986-2005 with a new Index of Potential Labor Mobility. This index allows to tackle issues...
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We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using twelve waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel.The German labor market closely ties job accessibility to vocational education which likely hampers the transferability of foreign...
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We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the region. We...
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Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
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Mit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges haben sich die politischen Rahmenbedingungen für die ASEAN nachhaltig verändert. Ost … Rolle, die die ASEAN im Zusammenhang mit der damit notwendig gewordenen strukturellen Neuordnung regionaler Politik spielen … adäquat zu reagieren. Dabei werden der ASEAN durch gruppeninterne Spannungen allerdings deutliche Grenzen gesetzt. Unter der …
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As the deadline for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) approaches, the Philippines has yet to complete the …
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