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Managing Migration Through Conflicting Policies : An Option-Theory Perspective
Moretto, Michele - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988305
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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries
Egger, Peter H. - 2014
This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2021
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...
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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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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104251
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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams
Gerhards, Leonie - 2017
on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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Gender Differences in Strategic Reasoning
Dittrich, Marcus; Leipold, Kristina - 2021
This paper studies gender differences in strategic situations. In two experimental guessing games - the beauty contest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315607
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A Study of Outcome Reporting Bias Using Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio; Heider, Janna - 2021
possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the …, however, does not support the consensus: only a tiny fraction of the replications displays gender differences. This striking … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …
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Intergenerational assimilation of minorities : the role of the majority group
Itoh, Ryo; Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013188300