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The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Link, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
forced to leave their homelands and settle within the new borders of West Germany. Subsequently, a law was introduced to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151019
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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103271
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455548