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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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Interregionale Arbeitskräftewanderungen: theoretische Erklärungsansätze und empirischer Befund

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

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The impact of a Customs Union with the EU on internal migration in Turkey under the two alternative Harris-Todaro and wage curve settings

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The impact on internal migration of the recent Customs Union (CU) agreement between Turkey and the European Union (EU) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility, under two alternative specifications for the labour...

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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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Towards a Dual Education System, A Labour Market Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Bolivia

Lay, Jann; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

This paper addresses poverty reduction strategies from a labour market perspective. Structural features and constraints are emphasised using informality as a descriptive and segmentation as an analytical concept. Divergent demand-side developments combined with limited labour market mobility...

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GEM-PIA: A Real-Financial General Equilibrium Model for Poverty Impact Analysis ; Technical Description

Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

This paper provides a technical description of GEM-PIA, a recursive-dynamic computable General Equilibrium Model for Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset portfolio behavior of macromodels, thereby addressing the...

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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...

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Whole-household Migration, Inequality and Poverty in Rural Mexiko

Arslan, Aslihan; Taylor, J. Edward - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Whole-household migration potentially can alter the results of studies on income inequality based on panel data if it selects on household income. We model whole-household migration and its impacts on income inequality and poverty using a unique, nationally representative household panel data...

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The focus axiom and poverty: On the co-existence of precise language and ambiguous meaning in economic measurement

Subramanian, Subbu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures could be compromised in the absence of a clear and coherent conceptualization of the phenomenon being measured. A case in point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the...

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