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State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work
Social Science Research NetworkPrior studies show that taxes matter for the residential locations of high-income earners. But states raise a significant share of revenue from nonresidents.
David R. Agrawal, Kenneth Tester
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Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration?
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017 Occupational licensure may limit the interstate movement of workers because it adds to the cost of moving between states. We analyze the interstate migration of 22 licensed occupations, proxying for the difficulty of the regulations by comparing state ...
Janna E. Johnson, M. Kleiner
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The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
Social Science Research Network, 2021 We quantify how pollution affects aggregate productivity and welfare in spatial equilibrium. We show that skilled workers in China emigrate away from polluted cities.
A. M. Mobarak +3 more
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Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 Many countries shift substantial public resources across jurisdictions to mitigate spatial economic disparities. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, labor mobility, and costly trade to carve out the aggregate implications
Marcel Henkel +2 more
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Migration and aspirations – are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?
, 2014 Based on longitudinal information from two waves of the Indonesian Family and LifeSurvey (IFLS) in 2000 and 2007, we find evidence that migrants are self-selectedalong higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) beforemigration.
M. Czaika, Marc Vothknecht
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Social Science Research Network, 2014 In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market.
Max Nathan
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Labour mobility and labour market adjustment in the EU
, 2016 This paper assesses the role of labour mobility in the adjustment to asymmetric economic shocks in the EU. After presenting a series of stylised facts of mobility in the EU, it assesses mobility as a channel of economic adjustment by means of a vector ...
Alfonso Arpaia +3 more
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Local Ties in Spatial Equilibrium
Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 2019 Someone who lives in an economically depressed place was probably born there. And having workers with local ties who prefer to live in their birthplaces leads to smaller migration responses in depressed places.
Mike Zabek
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Networks and Mis-allocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap
, 2015 We provide an explanation for the large spatial wage disparities and low male migration in India based on the trade-off between consumption smoothing, provided by caste-based rural insurance networks, and the income gains from migration.
Kaivan Munshi, Mark R. Rosenzweig
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Skills or culture? An analysis of the decision to work by immigrant women in Italy
, 2011 Activity and employment rates for immigrant women in many industrialised countries display a great variability across national groups. The aim of this paper is to assess whether this fact is due to a voluntary decision (i.e.
Antonio Accetturo, L. Infante
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