We study the effects of mobility costs in a model of wage bargaining between heterogeneous workers and firms, where there is instantaneous matching, free firm entry, and workers' individual productivities are discovered by firms only after being hired.We derive the employment level and the minimum quality standard, in the market solution and in the socially efficient solution. We show that the ...

In this paper we analyze the effect of increasing labor (i.e. graduates’/academics’) and student mobility on net tax revenues when revenuemaximizing governments compete for human capital by means of income tax rates and amenities offered to students (positive expenditure) or rather tuition fees (negative expenditure). We demonstrate that these instruments are strategic complements and that incr...

We use longitudinal data on children and their parents to assess the extent of intergenerational mobility in Britain. Based on data from the National Child Development Survey, a cohort of all individuals born in a week of March , we find that the extent of intergenerational mobility is limited. We report a clear intergenerational correlation between fathers and both sons and daughters in te...

Frédéric Décosse. Persistent unfree labour in French intensive agriculture An historical overview of the ’OFII’ temporary farmworkers programme. ALESSANDRA CORRADO; CARLOS DE CASTRO; DOMENICO PERROTTA. Migration and Agriculture: Mobility and change in the Mediterranean area, ROUTLEDGE, pp.183-197, 2016, 9781138962231. <https://www.routledge.com/Migration-and-Agriculture-Mobility-andchange-in-th...

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