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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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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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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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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
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On the economics and politics of refugee migration
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544179
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481390
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Self-selection of emigrants : theory and evidence on stochastic dominance in observable and unobservable characteristics
Borjas, George J.; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350731
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The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration : empirical evidence from France
Lochmann, Alexia; Rapoport, Hillel; Speciale, Biagio - 2017
We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a precise rule: the training is available when the test score of an initial language exam is below a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646944
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Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2015
Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387390