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Labour market entry of migrants in Germany : does cultural diversity matter?
Haas, Anette; Damelang, Andreas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
migrants and other migrants compared with Germans as the reference group. A multinomial probit model reveals that Turkish … market, whereas EU15 migrants do not differ from Germans in this respect. In addition to controlling for individual and firm … of cultural diversity, young migrants will find employment more easily. In contrast to other studies which emphasize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592318
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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
"We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...
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
"We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852390
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Labour market entry of migrants in Germany : does cultural diversity matter?
Haas, Anette; Damelang, Andreas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
migrants and other migrants compared with Germans as the reference group. A multinomial probit model reveals that Turkish … market, whereas EU15 migrants do not differ from Germans in this respect. In addition to controlling for individual and firm … of cultural diversity, young migrants will find employment more easily. In contrast to other studies which emphasize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132549
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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
"Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either …, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that differences in the employment trajectories of migrants and natives … job mobility of migrants and natives in Germany and distinguish among voluntary, involuntary, internal and other job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227841
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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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Migration, unemployment and skill downgrading : a specific-factors approach
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper analyzes the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labor market in a specific factors two-sector model with heterogeneous labor (low-, medium-, and highly-skilled) and price- and wage-setting behavior. The low- and medium-skilled labor markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198603
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Recruiting abroad: the role of foreign affinity and labour market scarcity
Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"I study the recruiting behaviour of German establishments with regard to the use of foreign labour markets. Applying instrumental variable strategies, I find foreign affinity and labour market scarcity to stimulate the use of foreign markets. Regional labour market scarcity is particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719984
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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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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants : quasi-experimental evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany (Ethnische Konzentration und Sprachkompetenz von Ei...
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592290