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large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …
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also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …
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This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can follow their children after they have...
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This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s …, while the US and Germany experienced similar changes at the top of the distribution throughout the 80s and 90s, the patterns …
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This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our...
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This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
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Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …
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This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employer-employee data that cover the...
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Germany. We show evidence that job mobility is higher in the UK than in Germany, and that job movers may be negatively … selected in Germany, but not in the UK. Our findings suggest that returns to experience are substantially higher in the UK … in the UK and 30 percent in Germany. Separate estimates for different qualification groups show that in Germany, it is …
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-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting context to test this hypothesis, due to its large scale …
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