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substantial movements beneath the surface. The US and the UK underwent a process of income polarisation. For the study of mobility …, stochastic kernels are used, because standard approaches based on mobility indices and transition matrices, which group persons … into income classes of arbitrary size, lead to misleading conclusions. The measures attribute greater mobility to Germany …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...
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differences in social mobility and persistence. …
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We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children’s ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous...
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Bismarckian (with benefits related to past contributions). Labor mobility raises concerns about the sustainability of the most … differ in mobility cost (attachment to their native country). A Bismarckian insurance system is not affected by migration …
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We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
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Two jurisdictions compete to capture the rents of a large multinational enterprise (MNE) which invests locally and which is partly owned by local investors. The MNE contributes to local welfare by tax payments and dividends, and it has private information about the efficiency of the operations...
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The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …
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A long-standing concern in the literature has been that household mobility implies a serious threat to the viability of …
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Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as … outflows of students show imbalances and such imbalances are expected to increase with mobility. Therefore, we first suggest …
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