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Schmidheiny, Kurt; Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general equilibrium model of location choice by heterogeneously skilled workers, and consider different degrees of complementarities between the skills of workers. The nature of the...

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Do High-Skilled Immigrants find Jobs Faster than Low-Skilled Immigrants?

Wapler, Rüdiger; Hochfellner, Daniela - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

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What Active Labour Market Programmes Work for Immigrants in Europe?

Walter, Thomas; Butschek, Sebastian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

In this paper, we provide a quantitative answer to the question what types of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of...

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New insights into the development of regional unemployment disparities

Werner, Daniel - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Large regional unemployment disparities are a common feature of the labor market in many countries. This study deals with the question whether regional unemployment disparities in western Germany widen, become narrower or remain constant over time. It examines the hypothesis of convergence for...

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Cognitive skills, tasks and job mobility

Warnke, Arne Jonas; Ederer, Peer; Schuller, Philipp - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

The authors investigate on the basis of primary and secondary data the relationship between individual cognitive skills and the complexity of the particular work those individuals perform. Additionally, the relationship between skills and mobility between more or less complex jobs in an highly...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Search Unemployment, and the Role of Labor Market Institutions

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011

This paper proposes a simple multi-industry trade model with search frictions in the labor market. It will be shown that the reallocation of capital across countries in formof FDI leads to changes in unemployment at the extensive and intensive industry margins. Whether a country benefits from...

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Describing the Dynamics of Distribution in Search and Matching Models by Fokker-Planck Equations

Wälde, Klaus; Bayer, Christian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011

This paper provides the proofs to the analysis of a continuous time matching model with saving in Bayer and Wälde (2010a). The paper proves the results on consumption growth, provides an existence proof for optimal consumption and a detailed derivation of the Fokker-Planck equations.

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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?

Fischer, Justina - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011

We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are more likely to accept using violence for...

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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

performance and societal integration. However, an unexplored channel connects ethnic clustering with ethnic identity formation …. Therefore this paper examines the role of ethnic geographic clustering in the sociocultural integration of immigrants. It … recruitment in the 1960s and 1970s and find that local co-ethnic concentration affects immigrants cultural integration …

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Granting Birthright Citizenship - A Door Opener for Immigrant Children's Educational Participation and Success?

Saurer, Judith; Felfe, Christina - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Does granting citizenship at birth help immigrant children to integrate in the host country's educational system and thus, to promote their educational success? Our identification strategy is based on a reform of the German naturalization law in 2000. We exploit this natural experiment and use a...

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