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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854550
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Eckstein, Zvi; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital … capital theory, we derive a non-linear model that imposes restrictions across the earning equations of natives and immigrants …. The two earning functions are estimated jointly, using repeated cross section data. Using data on immigrants from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661791
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Structural Adjustment and the Sectoral and Geographical Mobility of Labour
Greenaway, David; Upward, Richard; Wright, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Conventional methods for analysing worker flows often focus on gross flows or transition probabilities. This is not necessarily informative for identifying the scale of labour ‘adjustment’ in an economy in the sense of the expansion and decline of industries. We develop a method that relates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504334
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Learning About Migration Decisions from the Migrants: Using Complementary Datasets to Model Intra-Regional Migrations in Spain
Arellano, Manuel; Bover, Olympia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
, using a large administrative micro dataset on migrants. Conditional migration probabilities are identified by comparing the … on the individual probabilities of intra-regional migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789092
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Female Labour Supply, Flexibility Of Working Hours, And Job Mobility
Euwals, Rob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In the empirical literature on labour supply, several static models are developed to incorporate constraints on working hours. These models do not address to what extent working hours are constrained within jobs, and to what extent working hours can be adjusted by means of changing employer. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661928
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labour Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogenous Production Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this Paper we analyse a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666625
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Adjustment Mechanisms in a Currency Area
Goodhart, Charles A; Lee, D J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
mechanisms within the currency region. We concentrate on four such mechanisms, relative wage adjustment, migration, net fiscal … flows and bank flows. Only in Latvia was there any relative wage adjustment. Intra-EU migration has increased, but is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083896
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Why do People Stay? The Insider Advantages Approach: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Labour Markets
Fischer, Peter A; Holm, Einar; Malmberg, Gunnar; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Migration research has been quite successful in explaining changes in migration flows. Less satisfactory are its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791804
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The Asset Portfolios of Native-born and Foreign-born Households
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971429
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497816