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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 quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants … and native West Germans that were comparable before the war perform strikingly different. Migrants have substantially …
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large, but transparent assumptions regarding behaviors of household members and selectivity of migrants allow identification …
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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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the household nor marital status seem to influence the migrant’s decision of whether to leave seasonally or permanently …. The main group of seasonal migrants are less educated men from rural areas. …
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determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou (mainland China). The two cities are culturally …
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In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany...
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We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance and a much lower impact of resources and the...
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The Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model is the workhorse of labor macro, but it has difficulty in simultaneously matching the cyclical behavior of job loss and vacancies when taken to the data. By completely ignoring frictions in job creation and focusing instead on firm-level...
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While the immigration policy in the United States is mainly oriented to family reunification, in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants. This paper compares both immigration policies through the...
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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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