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productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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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 …
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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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Heterogeneity in the ethnic composition of Germany's immigrant population renders general conclusions on the degree of economic integration difficult. Using a rich longitudinal data-set, this paper tests for differences in economic assimilation profiles of four entry cohorts of foreign-born...
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for theoretical models which predict different remittance time paths between return and permanent migrants. -- Migration … ; Remittances ; German Socio Economic Panel …
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