Similar Search Results

In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068709

Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

policies and higher wages than the periphery without inducing a relocation of firms. The scope to have higher wage is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963612

Financial Development and Employment: Evidence from Transition Countries

Schäfer, Dorothea; Steiner, Susan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

This paper studies the association between a country's level of financial development and firms' employment growth. We employ an incomplete contract model for evaluating this association. The model proposes that a high level of financial development affects the employment of firms with low...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128835

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018681

Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Kröger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360171

The Determinants of Anti-trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

We develop a new index measuring governments' anti-trafficking policies for up to 180 countries over the 2000-2010 period. We assess a country's level of compliance in the three main dimensions of anti-trafficking policies - prosecution, protection and prevention. The results show that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556267

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556269

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666620

Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963624

Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963632