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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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Too many migrants, too few services : a model of decision-making on immigration and integration with cultural distance : presented at CESifo Conference on Migration and the Welfare...
Verbon, Harrie; Meijdam, Lex - 2004
In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by unskilled and non-assimilated immigrants, and experiencing disutility due to the immigrant workers having a culture different from the native culture. Immigrants decide whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450666
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Refugee migration and the labor market : lessons from 40 years of post-arrival policies in Denmark
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...
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The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries
Brell, Courtney; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2020
We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...
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Social assistance and refugee crime
Auer, Daniel; Slotwinski, Michaela; Ahrens, Achim; … - 2024
Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking steps to address this gap, our study focuses on Switzerland, where mobility restrictions on exogenously assigned refugees coincide with cantons’ autonomy in setting social...
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Immigration, regional conditions, and crime : evidence from an allocation policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - 2015
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a …
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Between fear mongers and Samaritans : does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?
Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020 - This version: 1 July 2020
different information about the asylum-seekers that came to Germany in 2015 and 2016. The treatments involve information about …
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Returns to citizenship? : Evidence from Germany's recent immigration reforms
Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - 2014
reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification, we exploit discontinuities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340375
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Migration background and educational tracking : is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?
Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - 2010
immigrants. -- immigration ; educational inequalities ; educational tracking ; Germany …
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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? : evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684076