We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax …-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find … that remittances have a large positive effect on VAT revenues but no effect on income-tax revenues. This suggests that …

propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national … empirical results imply that for students with a migration background a key for catching up is the language spoken at home. We …