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Family unification, siblings, and skills
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
Recently proposed immigration reforms would constitute a major break in the 40-year-old U.S. admissions policy favoring family members. Although emphasizing the importance of the nuclear family, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and a house subcommittee on immigration recommend...
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Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reform on Undocumented Immigrants
Bhardwaj, Sakshi - 2021
This paper examines the labor market effects of ending the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for undocumented immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227354
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Access to Citizenship and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants
Gathmann, Christina - 2017
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and earnings than natives. We analyze whether a more liberal citizenship policy improves the economic assimilation of immigrants in the host country. The empirical analysis relies on two reforms which created exogenous variation in the...
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Despite or because? - Some lessons of German unification for EU enlargement
Busch, Ulrich (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt holds that despite the huge transfers from West to East Germany the East German economy does not take off as it was widely expected. We argue it is not despite these transfers but because of them. Building on the common features of the extension of the...
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The macroeconomic effects of German unification : real adjustments and the welfare state
Canova, Fabio; Ravn, Morten O. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001462387
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Zur Quantifizierung wiedervereinigungsinduzierter Kosten und Transfers in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung
Mientus, Franziska - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013444524
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The economic impact of social ties : evidence from German reunification
Burchardi, Konrad B.; Hassan, Tarek A. - 2011
) have a high concentration of households with social ties to the East exhibit substantially higher growth in income per … is associated with a 4.6 percentage point rise in income per capita over six years. We interpret our findings as evidence …
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Consolidating the evidence on income mobility in the western states of Germany and the US from 1984-2006
Bayaz Ozturk, Gulgun; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Couch, … - 2013
The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines …
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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. From 1984-2006
Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2013
The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089392
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Children of the reunification : gendered effects on intergenerational mobility in Germany
Wagner, Sander - 2017
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