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Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Peter, Frauke H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has …

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Location Decisions in a Changing Labour Market Environment

Frank, Björn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...

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Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

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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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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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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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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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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Human Trafficking, a Shadow of Migration: Evidence from Germany

Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

. However, the network effect varies across different income levels of source countries. The significant, positive effect of … migrant networks decreases as the income level increases, and furthermore the effect is insignificant for high income …

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Human Trafficking, a Shadow of Migration: Evidence from Germany

Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

respective country. However, the network effect varies across different income levels of source countries. The significant …, positive effect of migrant networks on human trafficking decreases as the income level increases, and furthermore the effect is … insignificant for high income countries. …

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Occupational Choice across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Germany, analyzes how individual men and women access jobs given their family background, and investigates why men and women …

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