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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid …

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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of earnings, we find a persistent and rising labour market divide …

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Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labour: A Random Effects Panel Analysis

Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

stylized description of the past West German immigration problem. Examining the wage functions of white and blue collar natives …

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Immigrant Labour and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyses the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869 and the...

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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU

Giulietti, Corrado; Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …

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