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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034643
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973883
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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823005