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Do immigrants take or create residents jobs? Quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland

Siegenthaler, Michael; Basten, Christoph - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …

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Youth Employment Instability, True State Dependence and Adult Wage Inequality

Umkehrer, Matthias - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in aggregate labor market conditions induced by differences...

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Spillover Effects in Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Mass Layoffs

Gathmann, Christina; Helm, Ines; Schönberg, Uta - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Governments are often willing to subsidize firms on the verge of bankruptcy. The main economic rationale behind these interventions is that a plant closure would not only harm the workers employed in that plant, but create a domino effect on the regional economy as a whole. Yet, little is still...

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? What Drives the Skill-Composition of Labor Flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage …

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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?

Jahn, Elke; Hirsch, Boris; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, Daniela - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Kramer, Anica; Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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The Effect of Ethnic Clustering on Migrant Integration in Germany

Treude, Barbara - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Even though ethnic clustering is common, both economic theory and empirical research have not been able to provide a clear-cut answer on its effects on the integration of immigrants. In this paper, we study the effect of residential clustering on the labour market outcome of immigrants in...

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Alterung in Berufen: Der Beitrag ökonomischer Einflüsse

Henseke, Golo; Tivig, Thusnelda - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Demografischer Wandel und die strukturellen Veränderungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt tragen gemeinsam zur Alterung des Beschäftigtenbestands bei. Während der demografische Wandel eine gesellschaftliche Entwicklung ist, variieren Arbeitsmarkttrends über Berufe. Basierend auf Beschäftigtendaten der...

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What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?

Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...

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Sharing the burden? Empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...

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