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The Impact of 9/11 and the London Bombings on the Employment and Earnings of U.K. Muslims
Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper estimates the impact that Britain's July 2005 bombings had on the labor market outcomes of UK residents who are either Muslim by religious affiliation or whose nativity profiles are similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point...
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried … salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …. However, if self-employed businesswomen went into salaried jobs, their wages would decline, suggesting that it is the self …
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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Self-Employment Dynamics across the Business Cycle: Migrants versus Natives
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
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Human Trafficking, a Shadow of Migration: Evidence from Germany
Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper empirically analyzes the causal relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany during the period between 2001 and 2010. My results suggest that migrant networks, measured by migrant stocks from a specific source country, increase the illicit, exploitative...
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Human Trafficking, a Shadow of Migration: Evidence from Germany
Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany during the period between 2001 and 2010. My results suggest that migrant networks, measured by migrant stocks from a specific source country, have a causal linkage with the illicit,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896201
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The Effects of Labor Supply Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Mansour, Hani - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in … separately from the effects of political instability. The results suggest that low-skilled wages are adversely affected by an … increase in the supply of low- and high-skilled workers, while high- skilled wages are only weakly negatively related to an …
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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime
Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite comparably low returns and high risk? This paper connects several streams of literature to shed some light on this puzzle and suggests possible future research avenues. Key...
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Employment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany: Semi-Parametric Estimations from Cross-Sectional Data
Müller, Kai-Uwe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...
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