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Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2021

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

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A New Approach to Solving Production-Appropriation Games with Many Heterogeneous Players

Cornes, Richard C.; Hartley, Roger; Tamura, Yuji - 2021

We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a …

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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2021

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...

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