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This paper provides a model of nonlinear income taxation in a context of international mobility. We consider two identical countries, in which each government chooses non-cooperatively redistributive taxes. It is shown that when skilled workers can move at low cost, the income taxation does not involve distortions. When the cost to move becomes high for skilled workers, taxation policy is less redistributive but qualitatively similar to the taxation policy in autarky. Moreover, the mobility of the unskilled workers does not affect the income taxation when both countries have Rawlsian objectives.

Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 2 Literature Review -- Abstract -- 2.1 Theories of International Labor Mobility -- 2.1.1 Early Work of Theory of International Labor Mobility -- 2.1.2 Theories of Reasons for International Labor Mobility -- 2.1.2.1 Neoclassical Economics: Macro Theory -- 2.1.2.2 Neoclassical Economics: Micro-theory -- 2.1.2.3 New Economics of Migration -- 2.1.2.4 Dual Labor Market Theory -- 2.1.2.5 World System Theory -- 2.2 Features of Current International Labor Mobility -- 2.2.1 Shift from Construction to Manufacturing, also to Services -- 2.2.2 Feminization of International Labor Mobility -- 2.2.3 The Effect of Unskilled Labor Mobility to the Employment of Host Country -- 2.3 Features of Labor Mobility in Asia -- 2.3.1 Non-permanent Mobility -- 2.3.2 Features of the Work Migrants Perform in Destination Countries in Asia -- 2.3.3 Feminization of Labor Mobility in Asia -- 2.3.4 Importance of the Role of Migration Agents -- 2.4 Skilled Migration -- 2.4.1 Brain Drain -- 2.4.1.1 Commencement of the Concept of "Brain Drain" -- 2.4.1.2 Negative Impact of Brain Drain to the Home Countries -- 2.4.1.3 Positive Switchover of "Brain Drain" -- 2.4.2 Brain Circulation -- 2.5 International Labor Mobility of Taiwan -- 2.5.1 About Unskilled Labor Mobility to Taiwan -- 2.5.2 Brain Circulation in Taiwan -- 2.5.3 Skilled Migration Around Taiwan and Policy Changes in the Twenty-First Century -- 2.5.4 Shortage of Highly Skilled Personnel in Taiwan in the Twenty-First Century -- 2.5.5 Migration Between Taiwan and China -- 2.6 Research Question -- References -- 3 Background of the Foreign Worker Introduction -- Abstract -- 3.1 The History of Introducing Foreign Workers into Taiwan -- 3.2 Supply and Demand in the Taiwanese Labor Market in Twenty-First Century -- 3.2.1 Condition of Labor Shortage

AbstractThis paper quantifies the effects of the determinants of intersectoral labor mobility and the effect of intersectoral labor mobility on deforestation in Ghana over the period 1970–2008. A cointegration and error correction modeling approach is employed. The empirical results show that labor mobility from the agricultural to the non-agricultural sector exerts negative effects on deforestation in Ghana in the long run and short run. Relative agricultural income exerts a significant negative effect on intersectoral labor mobility in the long run. Deforestation is influenced positively by population pressure, the price of fertilizer and rainfall, whereas access to irrigation infrastructure exerts a negative effect in the long run. In the short run, real producer prices of cocoa and maize exert significant positive effects on deforestation whereas access to irrigation infrastructure exerts a negative significant effect. Fruitful policy recommendations based on the empirical magnitudes and directions of these effects are made in this paper.

With the rise of attention paid to the subject of migrant workers in the Gulf and controversy surrounding the conditions in which these migrants work and live, labor mobility has become a significant aspect of GCC economic development. The region is host to around 15 million expatriate workers who generate around $80 billion in annual remittances each year and support an estimated 150 million dependents in their various home countries. This book provides a variety of approaches to the subject of labor mobility as an enabler for human, economic and social development. It explores migration policy and governance in the GCC states, the potential for research collaboration between migrant-sending and -receiving countries. Containing research concerning the relationship between remittances and economic cycles in home and host countries and the implications of labor mobility for families and households, this book offers vital research for those in economic development and the study of labor in the Middle East.

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Individuals who want to leave their employer usually raise the question whether mobility to a new employer pays off in the future. The paper contributes to this question by examining the consequences of labor market mobility in the medium term. Conclusions regarding whether an individual's wage trajectory at the new employer exceeds the one of the previous employer are drawn by application of an innovative procedure which involves the simultaneous investigation of wage trajectories at different employers. The main finding is that a considerable number of workers experience wage cuts which are of permanent nature. Only few of the transitions to lower wages pay off because of the steeper wage growth in the new job.

This research investigates labor market dynamics in Belgium and the specific role played by labor mobility in the adjustment process following a labor demand shock. It first analyzes the time series characteristics of the Belgian labor market based on a panel of 11 provinces from 2003 to 2015. This analysis allows the building and estimation of a PVAR model to obtain the response of employment, employment rate, and labor force participation rate to a shock in labor demand. The results suggest a minor role played by migration in the first years of the adjustment process, highlighting the difficulties for the EU to be considered an OCA.