Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 532
Cover Image
How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602108
Cover Image
Manpower constraints and corporate policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020
Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313778
Cover Image
Informal incentives and labor markets
Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2022
This paper theoretically investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal and self-enforcing agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and derive the following results. First, an increase in the supply of homogenous workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187715
Cover Image
The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war
Edo, Anthony - 2017
This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701511
Cover Image
Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646817
Cover Image
Explaining spatial patterns of foreign employment in Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2017
migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only … for total foreign employment but also for the 35 most important migration countries to Germany. Based on a total census … for all 402 districts in Germany, we find a large heterogeneity in migration determinants between nationalities. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611136
Cover Image
What makes brain drain more likely? : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Méango, Romuald - 2016
number has fueled fears about "Brain Drain" as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration … can compensate for the selection of high-skilled workers into migration. This papers measures the selection, incentive and … migration, thereby decreasing the average schooling level in the origin countries. However, stronger incentives to invest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566517
Cover Image
Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004
replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450583