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How do migrants choose their destination country?: an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264522
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Manpower Constraints and Corporate Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020
Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425604
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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657937
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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216254
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Manpower Constraints and Corporate Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2021
Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314951
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Location choice and employment decisions : a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals
Becker, Sascha; Ekholm, Karolina; Jaeckle, Robert; … - 2005
Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275858
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Explaining Spatial Patterns of Foreign Employment in Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017
migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only … for total foreign employment but also for the 35 most important migration countries to Germany. Based on a total census … for all 402 districts in Germany, we find a large heterogeneity in migration determinants between nationalities. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615911
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Immigration, Unemployment and Wages: New Causality Evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Cigdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro F. - 2017
The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657173
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Informal Incentives and Labor Markets
Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2022
This paper theoretically investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal and self-enforcing agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and derive the following results. First, an increase in the supply of homogenous workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266705