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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany

Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

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The emergence of China : opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Devlin, Robert (ed.); Estevadeordal, Antoni (ed.); … - Inter-American Development Bank; David Rockefeller … - 2006

"The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean provides a comprehensive … overview of China's economic policy and performance over recent decades and contrasts them with the Latin American experience …. What are the underlying factors behind China's competitive edge? What are the strategic implications of China's rise for …

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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters

Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...

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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008

García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...

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Alone but Better Off? Adult Child Migration and Health of Elderly Parents in Moldova

Böhme, Marcus; Persian, Ruth; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper investigates the e ect of migration on various...

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Migration Experience, Aspirations and the Brain Drain - Theory and Empirical Evidence

Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We develop a theoretical model of human skill formation and emigration. Additionally to existing brain drain models, we partly endogenize the heterogeneity of the individuals, by introducing aspirations. Emigration of an individual will result in a migration experience, which increases the...

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Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families: Housework, Hammock, or Higher Education

Görlich, Dennis; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and time allocation in migrant-sending families. Departing from the common finding that labour market participation is lower in migrant households, we investigate whether the reasons...

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Come Back or Stay? Spend Here or There? Temporary versus Permanent Migration and Remittance Patterns in the Republic of Moldova

Pinger, Pia R. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of temporary and permanent migration and the impact of the return decision on remittances patterns. Using a new detailed household dataset on migration in the Republic of Moldova, it is shown that return is determined by the economic conditions at home and...

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When a Random Sample is Not Random. Bounds on the Effect of Migration on Household Members Left Behind

Steinmayr, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households left behind. Answers to this question must confront a problem I refer to as invisible sample selection: when entire households migrate, no information about them remains in their...

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Mass Migration and Seasonality. Evidence on Moldova's Labour Exodus

Görlich, Dennis; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

This paper identifies the determinants and patterns of mass migration in Moldova – a country in which migration has become the dominant socioeconomic phenomenon in a period of less than 8 years. Special emphasis is placed on seasonal migration, which has become increasingly popular in many...

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