a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long … regions, it retards the out-migration that is part of the market process, thereby slowing economic development and … the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the insurance system has altered internal migration …

individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or her age and, therefore, that a change in a region's age … distribution affects the expected number of startups in the region. Using German regional data, we estimate a count-data model and …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances across German regions constructed from historical local dialect … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …