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Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy … differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …
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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
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wages more closely to productivity. …
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We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...
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Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits...
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, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad … sciences, and health are strong determinants of migration to the UK. For the move to the US, while the humanities area is a …
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immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … Treiman prestige scale scores increase their earnings, for self-employed immigrant men it is the longevity of the business … that makes a difference. Everything else equal, the earnings of self-employed Turks are no different from the earnings of …
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In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...
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to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European "blue card" initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …
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This paper empirically analyzes the causal relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany … source country, increase the illicit, exploitative form of migration - human trafficking - from that respective country …
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