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Migration and Education Aspirations - Another Channel of Brain Gain?

Böhme, Marcus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Using unique survey data from Moldova, we find that international migration raises parental … on GDP growth shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. We conclude that aspirations are a highly …

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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

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …

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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...

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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 …

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What kind of shock was it? Regional Integration and Structural Change in Germany after Unification

Burda, Michael C. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

intensive investment) and labor thinning (net out-migration). I propose a constant-returns neoclassical model of economic …

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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows

Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Manchec, Marie-Helene Le - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows Â— foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...

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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants. Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were close substitutes to the native West German...

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Interregionale Arbeitskräftewanderungen: theoretische Erklärungsansätze und empirischer Befund

Bode, Eckhardt; Zwing, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

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