Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Immigration written by Sumit S. Deole and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Migration written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette thèse est composée de trois essais indépendants qui ont tous un contenu principalement empirique. En se référant aux modèles de "political economy", chacun de ces essais cherche à metttre en évidence l'influence des attitudes individuelles sur la politique migratoire. Le premier essai, en exploitant le système de démocratie directe suisse, présente une analyse des déterminants des choix de vote et de participation dans le contexte de votations demandant davantage de restrictions à l'immigration. En se basant sur des données de sondage, le deuxième essai tente d'identifier les principaux déterminants des attitudes envers les immigrants dans divers pays européens. S'appuyant sur le fédéralisme suisse, le troisième essai étudie les déterminants des taux d'imposition fixés par les communes du canton de Vaud et tente de mettre en évidence si la concurrence fiscale liée à la mobilité des individus a un effet négatif sur ces taux.

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Immigration and of Language written by Gerardo Gomez-Ruano and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Migration written by Florence Miguet and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette thèse est composée de trois essais indépendants qui ont tous un contenu principalement empirique. En se référant aux modèles de "political economy", chacun de ces essais cherche à metttre en évidence l'influence des attitudes individuelles sur la politique migratoire. Le premier essai, en exploitant le système de démocratie directe suisse, présente une analyse des déterminants des choix de vote et de participation dans le contexte de votations demandant davantage de restrictions à l'immigration. En se basant sur des données de sondage, le deuxième essai tente d'identifier les principaux déterminants des attitudes envers les immigrants dans divers pays européens. S'appuyant sur le fédéralisme suisse, le troisième essai étudie les déterminants des taux d'imposition fixés par les communes du canton de Vaud et tente de mettre en évidence si la concurrence fiscale liée à la mobilité des individus a un effet négatif sur ces taux.

Download or read book Essays on Political Economy and Mass Migration to the United States 1900 1930 written by Alllison Marie Shertzer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Trade and Migration Policies written by Cyrille Schwellnus and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration written by Leila Simona Talani and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook discusses theoretical approaches to migration studies in general, as well as confronting various issues in international migration from a distinctive and unique international political economy perspective. With a focus on the relation bet

Download or read book Three Essays In Dynamic Political Economy written by Benjarong Suwankiri and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All observed government policies must pass through a political process. In many macroeconomic settings, the implemented policies affect the economy not only during the current period, but also the future path of the economy. In this dissertation, I investigate policies pertaining to immigration, redistribution, and poverty reduction. In the first chapter, I study how politics jointly determine the economy's redistribution and immigration policies. I develop a dynamic political economy model featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and retirees. The model also features both inter- and intra-generational redistribution, resembling a welfare state. To analyze multi-group political economy equilibria, I extend the class of dynamic political games featuring Subgame-perfect Markov as its equilibrium concept. The analysis allows for strategic voting behavior, where voters may vote for a candidate not directly representing their group. Because the policy preference of the unskilled workers is the most intermediate, other groups may choose to side with this policy choice in order to avoid their least preferred candidate. For the unskilled workers, inequality plays a key role in determining the degree of redistribution. Therefore, immigration ultimately affects the generosity of the welfare state by altering the level of inequality in the economy. The objectives of the second chapter are twofold. First, the chapter tries to understand the relationship between immigration and asset prices. The analysis reveals that the asset price responds positively to immigration. The immigration's influence goes through four channels: increasing saving, increasing marginal product of capital, decreasing marginal cost of investment, and raising population growth rate. After the preceding analysis, I study how different cohorts will harness these benefits through political interactions. This exercise reveals that the young cohort may have a strategic motive to influence the identity of the decisive voter in the next period to ensure the highest return on their savings in retirement. In addition, the model also predicts that the uncertainty in the population growth rate of the immigrants will lower these immigration quotas. The last chapter moves away from international policy arena and focuses domestically on escaping a poverty trap. Prior studies conclude that redistribution is a futile policy against this vicious cycle of poverty. I revisit this line of literature and show contrary to this conclusion that redistribution can help the economy escape the poverty trap. I characterize a necessary sequence of lump-sum taxes and transfers and show that this scheme will move the economy out of the poverty trap in finite time regardless of the economy's initial distribution of wealth. Unfortunately, I also show that neither basic democracy nor dictatorship can take the economy there with this policy scheme. The rationale for this is the following. The proposed escape route from poverty requires an economic input from the richer group. However, the shift in the decisive political influence during the path of development, from the hands of the poor to the hands of the rich, will put an end to this pro-poor policy scheme.

Download or read book Essays in Political Economy Migration and Public Economics written by Nikolaj Broberg and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis in four chapters focuses on political economy, migration, and public economics. The first chapter, joint with Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud, investigates the effects of campaign finance rules on electoral outcomes. In French departmental and municipal elections, candidates competing in districts above 9,000 inhabitants face spending limits and are eligible for public reimbursement. Using an RDD around the population threshold, we find that these rules increase competitiveness and benefit the runner-up of the previous race as well as new candidates, in departmental elections, while leaving the polarization and representativeness of the results unaffected. These results appear to be driven by the reimbursement of campaign expenditures, not spending limits. We do not find such effects in municipal elections, which we attribute to the use of a proportional list system instead of plurality voting. The second chapter, joint with Lars Ludolph, analyzes the effects of the migration wave from Central and Eastern European countries (AC-12) following their EU accession in 2004 on local level redistribution in England. We apply a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and find that greater migration flows led to spending on means-tested social care services to decrease in relative terms, while spending on education services increased. Our mechanisms suggest that, because of AC-12 migrants' young age at the time of arrival, the 2004 EU enlargement alleviated some of the pressure faced by social care spending in England. We find no evidence that spending shifts are driven by a change in the local willingness to redistribute income. The third chapter investigates the effect of ideological distance between EU Commissioners for Agriculture and Regional Policy and heads of governments on the allocation of agricultural and regional funds flowing to member states. Results show that ideological distance is a strong deterrent of funds being channeled. The effects are strongest in pre-election years, for countries providing the Commissioners in charge of the given portfolios, and for countries that are single-party-ruled as opposed to coalition-ruled. These results provide first hand evidence that the behavior of European Commissioners follows similar principles to national level elected politicians and can help the debate surrounding EU reforms and the political independence of its executive body. The fourth chapter, joint with Pietro Panizza, exploits a reform in Italy that granted mayors the right to run for a third consecutive term in towns below 3,000 inhabitants. We employ a difference-indiscontinuity design and find evidence of pandering effects by mayors in both their first and second term at the time of the reform. Results differ depending on the term of the mayor reflecting the importance of the horizon of when mayors' spending decisions pay off. We also find suggestive evidence of potential capture of first term mayors in the south of Italy.

Download or read book Empirical Essays on the Political Economy of Heterogeneity Migration and Institutions written by Yitagesu Zewdu Zergawu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquesta tesi es compon de quatre assaigs empírics que estudien l'economia política de l'heterogeneïtat social, la migració internacional i la qualitat institucional. El primer assaig analitza l'impacte dels xocs de preus dels productes bàsics i l'heterogeneïtat social sobre la incidència de conflictes civils. Amb l'ús de dades del panell per als països en desenvolupament, aquest assaig mostra que els xocs dels preus dels productes bàsics influeixen en els conflictes intraestatals en relació amb les estructures de diversitat social preexistents, així com els tipus de productes bàsics. El segon assaig analitza les tendències de la migració internacional centrades en els immigrants africans a Europa. Mitjançant dades de panell sobre migració bilateral, es mostra que els fluxos migratoris estan determinats per factors polítics i socials, a més de factors econòmics. Els resultats suggereixen que les intervencions polítiques per part de la Unió Europea i l'associació amb països africans haurien d'abordar els factors polítics i socials, a més dels econòmics, per gestionar les migracions internacionals. El tercer assaig examina l'impacte conjunt del capital d'infraestructura i la qualitat institucional en el creixement econòmic mitjançant un gran conjunt de dades de 120 països. Els resultats mostren que els termes d'interacció entre el capital d'infraestructura i la qualitat institucional tenen un impacte positiu i significatiu en el creixement econòmic. Això posa de manifest el paper de la qualitat institucional en la productivitat econòmica del capital d'infraestructura. Finalment, el quart assaig, que és un treball en curs, examina com els emigrants - concretament els emigrants africans, en aquest context - afecten l'estabilitat política i les reformes institucionals dels seus països d'origen. Junts, aquests assajos contribueixen a comprendre els conflictes civils, la migració internacional i la qualitat institucional en contextos caracteritzats per relacions multilaterals entre països.

Download or read book Essays in Immigration Economics and Political Economy written by Jörg Christoph Sajons and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Public Infrastructure and Economic Development in Regional Economies Internal Migration Political Cycles and Child Mortality written by José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this dissertation is to study the role of local politics in the economic development of regional economies by analyzing the decision to spend on local public infrastructure, and its effect on population welfare. This thesis addresses two relevant phenomena and their effects on public infrastructure investment: internal migration and political cycles. About internal migration, this thesis provides a rationale for the role of population and labor force mobility in the decision to spend local public funds in public infrastructure in open metropolitan areas -with perfect population mobility- under different perception's approximations: voters either anticipate or not changes in wages and housing prices and the in- or out- migration generated in response to changes in local taxes and public spending composition. In addition, this dissertation investigates whether political cycles affect the development of local public infrastructure. The case study chosen is the progress of water systems in Mexican municipalities for the 1994-2001 period. A new model of political cycles is proposed to explain the existence of political cycles in water investment and explain cross-sample differences in growth of water networks. Finally, as a way to assess the impact on welfare of political and decentralizing reforms in Mexico, this thesis analyzes the effect of the evolution of water services and the decentralization of water companies on infant and child mortality at a municipal level for the same period as above.

Download or read book Essays on High skilled Migration written by Shu-Ming Lin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three essays that focus on high-skilled migrations and how these are influenced by public policy and their economic impacts. The first essay links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Using event study analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the profit of employers and shareholders, in particular the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) of 1998 nearly doubled the available number of H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers in FY 1999. The empirical results show that top H-1B visa user industries enjoyed significant and positive excess returns with the passage of the ACWIA of 1998, while industries with little need for H-1B visas experienced no significant changes. Robustness checks including international comparisons, nonparametric modeling and a sample-split Chow structural break test support the results. In the second essay, I investigate the findings of the first essay by employing two multi-factor models-Fama-French three-factor model and Fama-French-momentum four-factor model. Fama and French (1993) claim that the three-factor model does a better job isolating the firm-specific components of returns. In contrast, Campbell, Lo and Mackinlay (1997) argue that in practice the gains from employing multi-factor models for modeling the normal returns are limited. The results support the point of Campbell, Lo and Mackinlay (1997). In the third essay, I use microdata on immigrants from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses to examine the growing earnings differentials between foreign-born Taiwanese and all other foreign-born immigrants. By decomposing the earnings gap, I show that over one-third of this gap (36% in 1990, 37% in 2000) can be attributed to the better endowment (higher education) of the Taiwanese. Among foreign-born Taiwanese from 1960 to 1999, 60% of the master degrees, 80% of the professional degrees and 92% of the doctorate degrees were earned in the United States. The growing numbers and rising percentage of U.S. earned degrees among the Taiwanese indicate their higher earnings relative to other immigrants in 1990 and 2000 can be attributed to their successful economic assimilation into the United States.

Download or read book Migration and the Welfare State written by Assaf Razin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a fiscal burden on the state that native-born voters would support less-generous benefits or restricted immigration, or both. And yet a welfare state with an aging population might welcome young skilled immigrants. The preferences of the native-born population toward migration depend on the skill and age composition of the immigrants, and migration policies in a political-economy framework may be tailored accordingly. This book examines how social benefits-immigrations political economy conflicts are resolved, with an empirical application to data from Europe and the developed countries, integrating elements from population, international, public, and political economics into a unified static and dynamic framework. Using a static analytical framework to examine intra-generational distribution, the authors first focus on the skill composition of migrants in both free and restricted immigration policy regimes, drawing on empirical research from EU-15 and non-EU-15 states. The authors then offer theoretical analyses of similar issues in dynamic overlapping generations settings, studying not only intragenerational but also intergenerational aspects, including old-young dependency ratios and skilled-unskilled conflicts. Finally, they examine overall gains from or costs of migration in both host and source countries and the race to the bottom argument of tax competition between states in the presence of free migration.

Download or read book Moving for Prosperity written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration presents a stark policy dilemma. Research repeatedly confirms that migrants, their families back home, and the countries that welcome them experience large economic and social gains. Easing immigration restrictions is one of the most effective tools for ending poverty and sharing prosperity across the globe. Yet, we see widespread opposition in destination countries, where migrants are depicted as the primary cause of many of their economic problems, from high unemployment to declining social services. Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets addresses this dilemma. In addition to providing comprehensive data and empirical analysis of migration patterns and their impact, the report argues for a series of policies that work with, rather than against, labor market forces. Policy makers should aim to ease short-run dislocations and adjustment costs so that the substantial long-term benefits are shared more evenly. Only then can we avoid draconian migration restrictions that will hurt everybody. Moving for Prosperity aims to inform and stimulate policy debate, facilitate further research, and identify prominent knowledge gaps. It demonstrates why existing income gaps, demographic differences, and rapidly declining transportation costs mean that global mobility will continue to be a key feature of our lives for generations to come. Its audience includes anyone interested in one of the most controversial policy debates of our time.

Download or read book Understanding Global Migration written by James F. Hollifield and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Global Migration offers scholars a groundbreaking account of emerging migration states around the globe, especially in the Global South. Leading scholars of migration have collaborated to provide a birds-eye view of migration interdependence. Understanding Global Migration proposes a new typology of migration states, identifying multiple ideal types beyond the classical liberal type. Much of the world's migration has been to countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. The authors assembled here account for diverse histories of colonialism, development, and identity in shaping migration policy. This book provides a truly global look at the dilemmas of migration governance: Will migration be destabilizing, or will it lead to greater openness and human development? The answer depends on the capacity of states to manage migration, especially their willingness to respect the rights of the ever-growing portion of the world's population that is on the move.

Download or read book Political Economy of Migration written by Samers M. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: