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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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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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EU Integration and its Implications for Asian Economies – What we Know and What Not

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent papers seem to indicate that the Rose effect seems to be...

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A tale of two countries: A comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment in either country, and there is mild evidence that...

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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

In this paper, I estimate a series of long run reallocative shocks to sectoral employment using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth for the United States from 1960 through 2011. Reallocative shocks (which primarily measure construction and technology busts) have little...

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Human Capital Depreciation During Family-related Career Interruptions in Male and Female Occupations

Görlich, Dennis; Grip, Andries de - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In contrast to other studies that do not explicitly focus on family-related career interruptions, we find that...

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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work

Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...

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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work

Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

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Government Activity and Economic Growth – One Size Fits All?

Beckmann, Joscha; Endrich, Marek; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic...

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External Drivers of Institutional Change in Central Asia – Regional Integration Schemes and the Role of Russia and China

Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Plamper, Hedwig - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

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