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This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
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This paper reveals that German firms with working time accounts (WTAs) show a similar separation and hiring behavior in response to revenue changes as firms without WTAs. This finding casts doubt on the popular hypothesis that WTAs were the key driver of the unusually small increase in German...
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The paper studies the major institutional changes that are at the root of the increase in the west European unemployment rate in the last quartercentury from below 3 percent to 11 percent. The institutional characteristics of wage bargaining, the tax wedge and the legal rules hamper the...
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' interactions that explains how chain migration can lead to a breakdown of traditional caregiving structures while an opposing … data from Moldova and found to perform better than predictions of some established migration models. The empirical analysis … suggests that migration and staying in order to provide care are strategic complements for children of elderly parents in most …
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in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
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in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
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immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high …
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This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and … education are affected by migration. Based on household survey data from Moldova, our results challenge the assertion that those …
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The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows — foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...
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include socioeconomic characteristics of the migrant and other household members, the pattern of migration (destination … migrant’s irregular legal status in the host country, and short migration spells …
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