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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 … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …

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Germany; an Immigration Country

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration … country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past …. Now it has to make up its mind on its immigration policy in the future. The paper looks at the experience with immigration …

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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. The norms and values experienced at the destination country could change the behavior of the migrant but also of family members left behind. In this paper we argue that a brain...

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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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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...

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A Model of an Optimum Currency Area

Ricci, Luca Antonio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper develops a model of the circumstances under which it is beneficial to participate in a currency area. The proposed two-country monetary model of trade with nominal rigidities encompasses the real and monetary arguments suggested by the optimum currency area literature: correlation of...

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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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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the United States and Mexico

López Real, Joel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

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 transition for the United States and Mexico. I find that: (i) the …

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Through which channels can remittances spur economic growth in MENA countries?

Mim, Sami Ben; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper studies the remittances' effect on economic growth. Using panel data techniques, the authors estimate several specifications to provide support of such relationship for MENA countries over the period 1980-2009. The findings provide new robust evidence on how remittances are used in...

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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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