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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning
Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663341
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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country
Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942898
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Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration
Li, Lei; Fan, Jingting - 2023
local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304459
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632347
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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees
Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018
Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898665
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Education-occupation mismatch of migrants in the Italian labour market: the effect of social networks
Van Wolleghem, Pierre Georges; De Angelis, Marina; … - 2019
Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098926
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Self-confirming immigration policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511754
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 … migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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What do immigrants value most about Switzerland? : evidence of the relative importance of income taxes
Morger, Mario - 2013
indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other … factors to influence the choice of destination municipality. -- migration ; tax competition ; dominance analysis ; relative …
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