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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...
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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. …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010499920
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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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Fast locations and slowing labor mobility
Coate, Patrick; Mangum, Kyle - 2019
Declining internal migration in the United States is driven by increasing home attachment in locations with initially … attachment, this paper estimates a structural model of migration that distinguishes moving frictions from home utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198332
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Economic geography and Urban environmental pollution
Quaas, Martin; Lange, Andreas - 2004
This paper studies Krugman's (1991) core-periphery model and extends it to include environmental pollution. We present the first analytic proof that only an even spreading of the firms over both of the two regions or a complete agglomeration of all manufacturing firms in one region are possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003246566
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Do co-worker networks increase or decrease productivity differences? : an agent-based model
Lőrincz, László - 2021
Do labor mobility, and co-worker networks contribute to convergence or divergence between regions? Based on the previous literature, labor mobility contributes to knowledge transfer between firms. Therefore, mobility may contribute to decreasing productivity differences, while limited mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623746
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A micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration
Marchal, Léa; Naiditch, Claire - 2016
This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …
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