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. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these results might be … spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean reverting during the … boom period we study. This leads to a positive correlation between the instrument and the change in unemployment. Taking …
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This paper uses micro data to analyze the wage structures in East Germany and West Germany before and after unification. In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or in the U.S. Since the collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany,...
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