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Alone but Better Off? Adult Child Migration and Health of Elderly Parents in Moldova

Böhme, Marcus; Persian, Ruth; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor …

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Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.

Caponi, Vincenzo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on all immigrants to the U.S., legal and illegal ones. Using econometric methodology proposed by Lancaster and Imbens (1996) we...

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Gender Differences in Risk Preferences and Stereotypes: Experimental Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patrilineal Society

Pondorfer, Andreas; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rehdanz, Katrin; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences of men and women across two distinct island societies in the Pacific: the patrilineal Palawan in the Philippines and the matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender...

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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing

Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 – 2005. We find strong evidence on the positive and negative effect of...

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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries … with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but we find no such evidence for Swedish MNEs. This is consistent … with the hypothesis that German MNEs locate production stages intensive in high-skilled labor abroad. In MNEs from either …

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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-war Germany

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

simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across …

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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries

Hall, Axel; Zoega, Gylfi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force … that emphasize the right of women to participate in the labor market. These values are currently shared by individuals born …

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Working-week flexibility: Implications for employment and productivity

Osuna, Victoria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly hours worked introduced in the recent Spanish labour market reform (the 2012 reform). A crucial aspect of the model will be the extent to which firms will be able to choose the...

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Outsourcing Motives, Location Choice and Labour Market Implications: An Empirical Analysis for European Countries

Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to assess the labour market repercussions at home. Employing Tobit models we differentiate between job losses as well as job creation for high and low skilled employees at the...

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International trade and polarization in the labor market

Das, Satya P. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

labor market observed in developed countries such as U.K. and U.S. It considers a small open economy, having production … sectors which use three types of labor: high-skill, middle-skill and low-skill. The economy faces an increase in the relative …

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