Calendrier du 19 avril 2021
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 19/04/2021 de 17:30 à 18:20
BALGOVA Maria (IZA)
Leaping into the unknown? The role of job search in migration decisions
In this paper, I show evidence that firms' recruitment across space significantly shapes inter-regional migration. I start by showing that the majority of US workers move to take up a specific job offer, rather than to search for employment. I then measure the opportunities to move by analyzing help-wanted ads in newspapers across the US, revealing significant differences in the size of local labour markets across workers. Finally, I build a dynamic discrete choice model which allows me to distinguish between speculative and non-speculative moves. I show that, holding the costs and benefits of migration constant, the workers with greater opportunity move more. This result suggests that there are potentially large social returns to efficient cross-regional hiring. It also demonstrates why spatial search frictions act as such a strong barrier to migration.
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GSIELM (Graduate Students International Economics and Labor Market) Lunch Seminar
Du 19/04/2021 de 13:00 à 14:00
https://zoom.univ-paris1.fr/j/95547842935?pwd=RXVsU3RIdTdleEUxbkZzVTJqMWd4UT09
FRANçOIS Manon (PSE)
Profit Shifting and Destination-Based Taxes
We study the choice between source-based corporate taxes and destination-based corporate taxes in a two-country model, allowing multinational firms to use transfer pricing to allocate profits across tax jurisdictions. We show that source-based taxation is a Nash equilibrium tax revenue maximizing jurisdictions if both domestic and foreign firms generate large revenues. Otherwise, the equilibrium involves destination-based taxes. We also show that a country has an incentive to unilaterally adopt destination-based taxes if it is much larger than the Foreign country.