Easy come, easy go: Return migration increases with tax incentives in the home country

Jacopo Bassetto and Giuseppe Ippedico
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Jacopo Bassetto: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research ; Department of Statistics of the University of Bologna
Giuseppe Ippedico: IZA (Institute for Labor Economics) ; School of Economics at the University of Nottingham

IAB-Forum, 2023, vol. 2023, issue 11|Nov, 1-28.01

Abstract: "For many years, Germany has been facing an increasing skills shortage in key occupations and has sought to attract a growing number of highly-skilled immigrants. In striving for this goal, Germany is competing not only with other countries with similar skills?demands but also with more traditional immigrant-sending countries. Some of these try to counterbalance the outflow of highly?skilled nationals by introducing large tax discounts for emigrants who eventually return. One example is the Italian returnees’ tax scheme “Legge Controesodo” (2010), which attracted back a sizeable proportion of highly-skilled young Italians who had been working in Germany." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Italien; Ausländerpolitik; Besteuerung; Einwanderer; Herkunftsland; Hochqualifizierte; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Italiener; Migranten; Quote; Reformpolitik; Rekrutierung; Rückwanderung; Rückwanderungsbereitschaft; Wanderungsmotivation; 2006-2017 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-28
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DOI: 10.48720/IAB.FOO.20231128.01

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