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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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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location

Ruhose, Jens; Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on unique...

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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-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...

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

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

are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as skilled jobs (cross-skill matching), then their expected time to find a … jobs (ex post segmented matching), it might be that the high-skilled actually need longer to find a job. We then provide … theoretical predictions: in case of cross-skill matching, the job finding rate of the high- and low-skilled does not differ …

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The effects of job displacement on the onset and progression of diabetes

Bergemann, Annette; Grönqvist, Erik; Gudbjörnsdottir, … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011

Are there negative health effects from losing the job? We analyze the causal effect of job displacement on diabetes incidence and prevalence. Type 2 diabetes is an illness that is directly affected by lifestyle factors and psychosocial stress, and with severe side-effects deteriorating the...

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Trade and the Spatial Distribution of Transport Infrastructure

Tarasov, Alexander; Felbermayr, Gabriel - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This paper endogenizes the spatial distribution of infrastructure investment and transportation costs. Transportation costs between two addresses depend on cumulative infrastructure investment. In a continuous space setting with several independent countries or regions, consumers demand domestic...

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Services, Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity: A Ricardo-Marshall Model

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

The last century has witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more of value added in...

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Continuous Logit Polycentric City Model

Wrede, Matthias - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This paper analyzes a closed linear polycentric city with homogenous households who probabilistically select their workplace and residence locations. The study utilizes a continuous logit model to describe household location choices. In contrast to the classic urban model with deterministic...

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City Competition for the Creative Class

Buettner, T; Janeba, Eckhard - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Considering data for individual earnings we show that the local subsidization of cultural activities in Germany exerts effects on the wage distribution in the sense that these subsidies tend to reduce the wage gap between those with higher and less education. These findings motivate a...

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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

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

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

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