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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning
Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663341
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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country
Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942898
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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees
Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018
Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898665
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Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration
Li, Lei; Fan, Jingting - 2023
local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304459
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632347
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Macroeconomic Determinants of International Migration to the UK
Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017
This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which … migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of … macroeconomic variables – UK GDP growth and GDP at origin – are significant drivers of migration flows; evidence for the impact of …
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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006902
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008410
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Hate at first sight? Dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration: The case of Ukip
Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022320
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Education-occupation mismatch of migrants in the Italian labour market: the effect of social networks
Van Wolleghem, Pierre Georges; De Angelis, Marina; … - 2019
Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098926