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Do the Best Go West?: An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IAB-employment sample, we find however...
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an … reservation wages may arise. In as far as language skills or self-evaluated returns to characteristics reflect a person's frames …
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
individuals with a high willingness to take risks. Some evidence suggests that this result is channeled through reservation wages …
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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg
Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich "weiche" Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
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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
This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the total size (scale) and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial...
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Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns
Meier, Kristina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on investment (usually defined as medium and long-term consumption, such as education, or investment into housing or business), on average leads to an increase in short-term consumption,...
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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
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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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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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