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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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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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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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Inequality and the (self-)selection of international migrants : theory and novel evidence
Brücker, Herbert; Defoort, Cecily - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the … less than proportional with the income level. As a consequence, migrants can be favourably self-selected although the … that migrants tend to be positively (self-)selected although the inequality in earnings is larger in the destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592435
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Inequality and the (self-)selection of international migrants : theory and novel evidence
Brücker, Herbert; Defoort, Cecily - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the … less than proportional with the income level. As a consequence, migrants can be favourably self-selected although the … that migrants tend to be positively (self-)selected although the inequality in earnings is larger in the destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537113
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166889
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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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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