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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - CESifo - 2014
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of...
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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross-European Analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009
explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show … interpret this result as evidence of employer discrimination in favor of taller workers. Our results are consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029260
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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...
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The East German Wage Structure after Transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2008
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...
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How do Migrants Choose their Destination Country? An Analysis of Institutional Determinants
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406154
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
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Self-Confirming Immigration Policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - CESifo - 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,...
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671737
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
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