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This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...
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natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of … differentiated by ethnic origin, gender and generation. This allows visualization of differences by ethnic groups and development … differences among immigrants and between immigrants and Germans do exist and differ significantly by ethnic origin, gender and …
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gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …
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We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in … correcting for endogeneity bias, temporary migrants are found to work more hours than permanent ones. This result supports the …
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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