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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012

concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants’ interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …

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Integrated Public Education, Fertility and Human Capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and …

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Tear Down this Wall: On the Persistence of Borders in Trade

Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - CESifo - 2009

-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least …

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The Diffusion of Knowledge Via Managers' Mobility

Mion, Giordano - 2017

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2017

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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Earnings Losses and Labor Mobility Over the Life Cycle

Jung, Philip - 2017

Large and persistent earnings losses following displacement have adverse consequences for the individual worker and the macroeconomy. Leading models cannot explain their size and disagree on their sources. Two mean-reverting forces make earnings losses transitory in these models: search as an...

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The Effects of a Bonus Tax on Manager Compensation and Welfare

Radulescu, Doina - 2010

This paper analyses the implications of a currently publicly debated issue, namely the introduction of a bonus tax. We shed light on the effects of the bonus tax on compensation components and study its incidence. We use the Principal Agent model within a two-country framework and consider two...

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Journey into the Unknown? Economic Consequences of Factor Market Integration Under Increasing Returns to Scale

Schäfer, Andreas - 2011

What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but …

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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2011

We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...

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Job Search, Human Capital and Wage Inequality

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012

The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labor market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...

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