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Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental …

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Social identity and labor market outcomes of internal migrant workers

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - This version: January 9, 2024

Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable estimation and careful robustness checks suggest that identifying …

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The Transition in East Germany: When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Since monetary union with West Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the years 1990–94, I...

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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020 - Pre-publication draft July 2020

Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...

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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2019

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Sexual orientation, gender identity and labour market outcomes : new patterns and insights

Drydakis, Nick; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

first ever meta-analysis of field experiments on occupational access discrimination based on sexual orientation, (ii …) utilizing the moderating role of marital status and family support, (iii) studying occupational access discrimination based on …

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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024

This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative … employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted … overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …

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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...

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