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Creativity over Time and Space - A Historical Analysis of European Cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582036
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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - 2015
authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531785
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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867015
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionally skilled. The brain drain from the poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264226
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Working from Home, Wages, and Regional Inequality in the Light of COVID-19
Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2020
We use the most recent wave of the German Qualifications and Career Survey and reveal a substantial wage premium in a Mincer regression for workers performing their job from home. The premium persists within narrowly defined jobs and after controlling for workplace activities and accounts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207997
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Working from Home, Wages, and Regional Inequality in the Light of COVID-19
Irlacher, Michael - 2020
We use the most recent wave of the German Qualifications and Career Survey and reveal a substantial wage premium in a Mincer regression for workers performing their job from home. The premium persists within narrowly defined jobs and after controlling for workplace activities and accounts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836201
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Creativity Over Time and Space - a Historical Analysis of European Cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235118
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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2013
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293911
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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max - 2015
provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388283
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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2013
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328770