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Creativity, Education or What? On the Measurement of Regional Human Capital
Bode, Eckhardt; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905571
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Interregionale Arbeitskräftewanderungen: theoretische Erklärungsansätze und empirischer Befund
Bode, Eckhardt; Zwing, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276360
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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700587
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Firm Training and Wage Rigidity
Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818855
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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
in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246867
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216279
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818846
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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 … migration, which has become increasingly popular in many Eastern European countries. Our findings indicate that poverty is a … main push factor of migration decisions. Additionally, network effects and migration experience appear to be crucial for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566165
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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany
Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887011
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Explaining the Low Labor Productivity in East Germany. A Spatial Analysis
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Izem, Rima - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper presents a spatial analysis of unemployment rates in Germany. The goal of this analysis is to explain the stubbornly low labor productivity and high unemployment rates in Eastern Germany. We build a model of commuting to distinguish between worker and job characteristics as the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700532