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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

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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Mass Migration and Seasonality. Evidence on Moldova's Labour Exodus

Görlich, Dennis; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

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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Capital mobility and growth

Diehl, Markus; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

We suggest a new way to quantify the growth effects of capital mobility. We find that for reasonable parameter values, capital mobility has a large impact on income growth.

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A Note on Human Capital and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

In this paper we reexamine the Feldstein-Horioka finding of limited international capital mobility by using a broader view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to this change.

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Emerging East-West collaborative networks: An appraisal

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Although an extensive amount of literature reviews emerging patterns of east-west co-operation, it is not easy to grasp the state of the art. Too many of the books, articles and papers tend to mark the trees rather than to map the forest. The paper analyses recent trends from the point of view...

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Deutschmark appreciation and structural change: An overview of economic structural reports

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

Changes in exchange rates have become a prominent issue in Germany and Japan - due to the enormous appreciation of the Deutschmark and the Yen. Conventional wisdom suggests that economic activity will be negatively affected if a currency is going through a phase of appreciation. The paper...

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Wage competition with international capital mobility

Lorz, Jens Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

This paper analyzes wage competition between national trade unions caused by the international mobility of capital. Perfect capital mobility leads to a Bertrand result for the outcome of wage competition: A pure strategy equilibrium implies full employment in all countries. It is shown that such...

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Emerging East-West corporate networks in Central European border regions: Some theoretical arguments and stylized facts

Gerling, Katja; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Economic re-integration after a long period of separation among countries with different levels of development is expected to start in border regions. Enterprises along the borderline can gain a rent due to low transport and transaction costs. They benefit from the fortunate opportunity of...

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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in international business: A survey of recent literature

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

It is often argued that the process of globalization has mainly favoured large-scale multinational companies which are able to organize their business efficiently within internal hierarchies. However, globalization has not only pushed cross-border intra-finn transactions but also other...

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Small- and medium-sized enterprises in cross-border networks: Empirical evidence from the Pearl River Delta

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

The Pearl River Delta is one of the most successful cases of economic re-integration after a long period of separation. Hong Kong's traditional policy of non-interventionism and China's open-door policy have induced a rapid increase in cross-border trade, outward processing and outward...

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