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The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2005

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to … differences between temporary and permanent migrants.Our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between … are taken into account. The results of a decomposition analysis indicate that differences in the savings rate between …

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2003

Using data for the 1990 ?s,this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan.Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50%of the total returns to schooling.We further find that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...

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The Demand for High-skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2003

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2004

The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities.We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Size and Development of the Shadow Economy and of Do-it-Yourself Activities in Germany

Buehn, Andreas - 2007

This paper presents the first MIMIC (multiple indicator multiple causes) model estimate of the size and development of the shadow economy and of do-it-yourself (DIY) activities in Germany from 1970 to 2005. By 2005, they reached a level of about 17% and 4.94%. While the shadow economy has...

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Shadow Economies Around the World : New Results for 158 Countries Over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro - 2017

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?

Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...

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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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Cash in Circulation and the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Investigation for Euro Area Countries and Beyond

Seitz, Franz - 2018

We analyze the net issues of the national euro area central banks in relation to the dynamics of the shadow economy within a panel cointegration framework. Besides the total net issues, we distinguish between large, medium and small euro banknotes and take due account of other determinants of...

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