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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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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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Heterogeneous Workers, Trade, and Migration
Heiland, Inga; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2013
We argue that the narrative of variety-induced gains from trade in differentiated goods needs revision. If producing differentiated varieties of a good requires differentiated skills and if the work force is heterogeneous in these skills, then firms are likely to have monopsony power. We show...
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A Note on Brain Gain and Brain Drain: Permanent Migration and Education Policy
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - CESifo - 2010
In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...
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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 … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535635
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008
Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …
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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - CESifo - 2013
causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693473
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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