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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Effekt einer ansteigenden linguistischen Distanz auf den Spracherwerb von Immigranten in Spanien, den USA und Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580162
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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants
Giesecke, Matthias; Schuß, Eric - 2019
We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062342
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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
Aufenthaltsdauer im Gastland verschwindet, deutet die Evidenz für Deutschland hauptsächlich auf persistente Lohnnachteile für … Doppelkohortenmodell zur Überprüfung der bestehenden Evidenz zu Einkommensassimilationsprozessen von Einwanderern nach Deutschland. Die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520616
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …Diese Studie analysiert den Bildungserfolg und die Arbeitsmarktintegration von jungen Migranten aus der ehemaligen … Bildungserfolg als Einheimische haben. Innerhalb der Gruppe der Migranten aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sind jüdische Migranten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration : Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cash-flow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311709
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan G. - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242159
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Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009
The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901015
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows in competitiveness in a set of seven euroarea member countries (Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic) in the context of real convergence and crisis. A specific focus is on Greece. The paper extends the seminal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373258
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244086
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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries
Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072073