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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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Interregionale Arbeitskräftewanderungen: theoretische Erklärungsansätze und empirischer Befund

Bode, Eckhardt; Zwing, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

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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...

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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...

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On the size of sheepskin effects: A meta-analysis

Rodríguez, Mora; James, Jhon; Muro, Juan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

The authors use information gathered from 122 studies on the effects of high school diplomas on wages in different countries worldwide to carry out a meta-analysis that shows high school diplomas have a statistically significant effect on wages of nearly 8 percent. This effect varies whether the...

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Regional competitiveness and training in Germany

Foders, Federico - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

This paper analyses the German training system from the point of view of regional policy. The problems and prospects of the German system of first and further vocational training are addressed followed by an overview over macro and micro approaches to an empirical assessment of the regional...

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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 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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