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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

Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...

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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

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

an immobile labour force and the eurosklerosis phenomenon. In such a situation, an economically motivated immigration …

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Short Term Living Conditions and Long Term Prospects of Immigrant Children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called ”ethnic Germans” who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are...

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Explaining Attitudes towards Immigration: New Pieces to the Puzzle

Tucci, Ingrid - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

This paper deals with two hypotheses about factors influencing attitudes toward immigration in Germany. The first looks … at how individuals' perceptions of their financial and job situation affect public opinion on immigration. The second … hypothesis tests how these attitudes are affected by the beneficial/detrimental effect of immigration on the individual and …

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Poverty in Germany: Statistical Inference and Decomposition

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Based on six harmonized cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, we study inter-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is applied to test for the statistical significance of...

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Pension Reform Options for Russia and Ukraine: A Critical Analysis of Available Options and Their Expected Outcomes (with a Focus on Labour Market, Industrial Restructuring and Pub...

Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinyavskaya, Oxana - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Russia and Ukraine are in the process of many changes stemming from economic transition, restructuring, demographic change and other various ongoing challenges. In terms of the ongoing challenges in each country, there are specific problems related to historical developments, such as large scale...

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Take It or Leave It: (Non-) Take-up Behavior of Social Assistance in Germany

Kayser, Hilke Almut; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

Basierend auf den Mikro-Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels untersuchen wir Determinanten der Nichtinanspruchnahme von Sozialhilfe in Deutschland. Die Schätzung einer Nichtinanspruchnahmequote ("Dunkelziffer") von über 60 Prozent zeigt deutliche Unterschiede für verschiedene...

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Getting back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Beside activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences for...

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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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