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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper addresses the question: why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...

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Immigrant Labour and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

employment of guest workers has a strong positive effect on the job safety of natives, however. The estimates imply that a 1 …% increase in the employment of guest workers is associated with a 1.7% decrease of less severe accidents and a 1.3% decrease of …

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Unemployment and Wages of Ethnic Germans

Bauer, Thomas; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … earnings differential between immigrants from Eastern Europe and comparable East Germans at the time of immigration. With …

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Temporary Migrants from Egypt: How Long Do They Stay Abroad?

Bauer, Thomas; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper analyses the determinants and timing of return migration. Special attention is given to the role of social and informational migration networks. A simple theoretical model of temporary migration demonstrates that the effect of migration networks on optimal migration duration is...

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Portuguese Migrants in the German Labour Market: Performance and Self-Selection

Bauer, Thomas; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vogler, Michael; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Using a large new data set, we analyse the labour market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese...

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Integrating the East: The Labour Market Effects of Immigration

Bauer, Thomas; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The paper evaluates the potential gains from labour immigration for the European Union. After a review of the East …-West migration problem and recent western migration policies, governmentally controlled labour immigration is studied in a framework … immigration if both types of workers are complements. Only skilled migration reduces unemployment, however. This disequilibrium …

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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas; Dross, Patrick J; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using data for the 1990s, this Paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...

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Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, however, that HPWOs affect their employment structure. …

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