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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …

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International Labor Migration, Economic Growth and Labor Markets – The Current State of Affairs

Haisken-DeNew, John P; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Bauer, Thomas - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2004

-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy directed at actively recruiting highly qualified … workers from abroad. It has further been argued that an immigration policy that is tailored to attract young and economically …, the paper discusses expectations on future migration flows and the policy options of immigration countries for dealing …

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Getting What (Employers Think) You’re Worth – Evidence on the Gender Gap in Entry Wages among University Graduates

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

Since the early 1970s, wage differentials between men and women have attracted the research interest of labor economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages is scarce. To fi ll this gap, we make use...

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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...

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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...

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Computational Economic Modeling of Migration

Klabunde, Anna - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

In this paper an agent-based model of endogenously evolving migrant networks is developed to identify the determinants of migration and return decisions. Individuals are connected by links, the strength of which declines over time and distance. Methodologically, this paper combines...

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People‘s Attitudes and the Eff ects of Immigration to Australia

Sinning, Mathias; Vorell, Matthias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

This paper compares the eff ects of immigration fl ows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion … account for non-random location choices of immigrants and fi nd that immigration has no adverse eff ects on regional … but does not confi rm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that …

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Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

We use a newly available measure of linguistic distance developed by the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing pronunciation and vocabulary of language...

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Gender Differences in the Intergenerational Earnings Mobility of Second-Generation Migrants

Flake, Regina - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

This study analyzes gender diff erences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in Germany. The analysis takes into account potential infl uences like assortative mating in the form of ethnic marriages and the parental integration measured by parents’ years...

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Migrant Youths‘ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...

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