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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097867
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high-migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955680
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646606
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755119