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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries
Kuckulenz, Anja; Buch, Claudia M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for developing countries. Yet, literature on worker...
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098165
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the … this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings are analyzed for foreigners in Germany with joint consideration … find an impact of language ability on earnings thereby implying an indirect effect. …
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Growing into Work - Pseudo Panel Data Evidence on Labor Market Entrance in Germany
Inkmann, Joachim; Klotz, Stefan; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
subsequent earnings and if a potential reduction lasts over the individual's labor market history. We construct a pseudo panel of … 1979, 1985/86, and 1991/92. Analyzing the pseudo panel data we find a strong negative impact on earnings for both a failed …
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and focused on its interaction with occupational segregation. We found evidence of strong occupational segregation, which we mainly attribute to institutional factors but also to...
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Die Arbeitserlaubnis als Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zur Steuerung internationaler Zuwanderung auf den Arbeitsmarkt
Velling, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1995
Die Arbeitserlaubnis ist das wichtigste Instrument zur Kontrolle des Arbeitsmarktzugangs von ausländischen Immigranten. Die Erteilung einer allgemeinen Arbeitserlaubnis wird - unter Beachtung des Anwerbestopps - normalerweise nur dann vorgenommen, wenn kein Deutscher oder gleichberechtigter...
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...
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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 - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
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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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...
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Against the one-way-street: Analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science
Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...
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