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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Testing for asymmetry in British, German and US unemployment data

Kohns, Stephan - 2001

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...

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Fertility assimilation of immigrants : evidence from count data models

Mayer, Jochen; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the … destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). While the … economic literature stresses the role of prices and incomes as determinants of fertility, the demographic literature discusses …

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The mortality crisis in East Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in particular between 1989 and 1991, in some age groups by up to thirty percent. This study first examines the developments of mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed...

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Aggregate-level migration studies as a tool for forecasting future migration streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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Immigrant participation in social assistance programs

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

The share of foreigners in the German social assistance program exceeds their population share and continues to grow. This study tests whether higher foreigner welfare dependence is due to foreign-native differences in behavior as opposed to exogenous characteristics. The determinants of welfare...

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Determinants of international migration : empirical evidence for migration from developing countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph - 1998

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

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The effects of development on migration : theoretical issues and new empirical evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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Frühverrentung in Deutschland : ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

Arnds, Pascal; Bonin, Holger - 2002

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