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Does labour mobility reduce disparities between regional labour markets in Germany?
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Granato, Nadia; Haas, Anette; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
, models that include externalities or selective migration suggest that regional differences might well increase due to … interregional migration of workers. We investigate the impact of labour mobility on regional disparities in Germany between 1995 and … 2005. Considering the impact of migration as well as commuting, effects on regional wages and unemployment are estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025329
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Does labour mobility reduce disparities between regional labour markets in Germany?
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Granato, Nadia; Haas, Anette; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
, models that include externalities or selective migration suggest that regional differences might well increase due to … interregional migration of workers. We investigate the impact of labour mobility on regional disparities in Germany between 1995 and … 2005. Considering the impact of migration as well as commuting, effects on regional wages and unemployment are estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592301
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Does higher education help immigrants find a job? : A survival analysis
Brück-Klingberg, Andrea; Burkert, Carola; Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
case, the two have the same labour market access but different migration backgrounds. In the second case, the migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592451
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Does higher education help immigrants find a job? : A survival analysis
Brück-Klingberg, Andrea; Burkert, Carola; Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
case, the two have the same labour market access but different migration backgrounds. In the second case, the migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852390
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The productivity effect of migrants : wage cost advantages and heterogeneous firms
Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of … migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz … (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different productivity levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183134
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Determinants of labor shortage - with particular focus on the German environmental sector
Horbach, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"Despite the ongoing discussion on labor shortage in the German economy there is still a lack of empirical analyses of this problem based on adequate econometric methods. The paper explores the determinants of labor shortage in the environmental sector supplying products and services that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891244
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The impact of low-skilled immigration on female labour supply
Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of immigrants on native female labour supply. By segmenting the market by educational levels, we are able to investigate which nativeborn women are more affected by an increase of low-skilled immigrants working in the household service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010963759
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Sorting within and across establishments : the immigrant-native wage differential in Germany
Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"Using new and unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, I examine the extent to which immigrants sort into worse-paying establishments and worse job positions within establishments. The results demonstrate that recent immigrants are particularly likely to work at low-paying workplaces....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252593
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Occupational and regional mobility as substitutes : a new approach to understanding job changes and wage inequality
Reichelt, Malte; Abraham, Martin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"Job mobility offers opportunities for workers to obtain wage increases, but returns to job changes differ considerably. We argue that parts of this inequality result from a trade-off between occupational and regional mobility. Both mobility types offer alternative strategies to improve one's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266528
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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market
Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227841