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The Purpose of Remittances – Evidence from Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias G. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is paid to migrants’ savings and transfers to family members in the home country. Our findings indicate that migrants who intend to stay in Germany only temporarily have a higher...
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Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany
Sinning, Mathias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of migrants’ financial transfers to their home country using German data.A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to send transfers abroad and the amount of transfers.The findings reveal that return intentions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738722
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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 about these eff ects using individual and regional data for Australia. We employ an instrumental variables strategy to account for non-random location choices of immigrants and fi...
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Job Security and Fertility: Evidence from German Reunification
Klemm, Marcus - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
German reunification to study empirically the relationship between job security and fertility. The civil servant … security and fertility emerges for men, the paper demonstrates a clear link between labor market and demographic outcomes for … causal impact of job security on fertility. It shows that female civil servants are not primarily a selected group of very …
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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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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
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Estonia and the European Monetary Union – Are there Benefi ts from a “Late” Accession?
Baas, Timo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
The failure of the Maastricht criteria delayed Estonia’s accession to the European Monetary Union (EMU) until January 2011. During this time, trading shares with Eurozone countries declined, raising questions about the optimal accession time. In this study, the macroeconomic eff ects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814382
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The Demand for High-skilled Worker and Immigration Policy
Bauer, Thomas; Kunze, Astrid - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2003
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548358
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Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants
Brenner, Jan - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007
We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using twelve waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel.The German labor market closely ties job accessibility to vocational education which likely hampers the transferability of foreign...
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Mobility within Europe – The Attitudes of European Youngsters
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2002
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration emanating from outside Europe, sectoral skill shortages...
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