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Modeling for Determinants of Human Trafficking
Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This study aims to identify robust push and pull factors of human trafficking. I test for the robustness of 78 push and 67 pull factors suggested in the literature. By employing an extreme bound analysis, running more than two million regressions with all possible combinations of variables for...
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also …
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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
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Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
effect on the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled migrants. Simplifying restrictions on substitutability across destinations …
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Occupational Choice across Generations
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963726
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963856
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Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?
Constant, Amelie; D'Agosto, Elena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...
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Circular Movements and Time away from the Host Country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years … Germany, the largest European immigration country, are indeed repeat migrants. The findings indicate that immigrants from …. Those migrants with family in the home country remain out longer but are not more frequently out. …
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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … this finding by arguing that this group exerts a relatively low search effort and that it has reservation wages which are …
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