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The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility : Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk

Malamud, Ofer; Wozniak, Abigail K. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

College-educated workers are twice as likely as high school graduates to make lasting long-distance moves, but little is known about the role of college itself in determining geographic mobility. Unobservable characteristics related to selection into college might also drive the relationship...

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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate... …

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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration

Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2019

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …

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Measuring applicant quality to detect discrimination in peer-to-peer lending

Weizsäcker, Georg; Zankiewicz, Christian - 2017

We measure the quality of applications for online peer-to-peer lending in Germany and relate it to gender discrimination. The data context allows summarizing application quality as a single numeric measure, the expected internal rate of return. The measure serves as a control variable and is...

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Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence

Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2018

We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We find that active learning has a positive...

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Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and if so, When?

Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2017

In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy. These results also hold for the subsample of randomized experiments (RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly...

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Don't expect too much - high income expectations and over-indebtedness

Klühs, Theres; Koch, Melanie; Stein, Wiebke - 2019

Household indebtedness is rising worldwide. This study investigates one possible driver of this increase that is rooted in the theory of permanent income: high income expectations. We collect data from an emerging country, Thailand, as (over-) indebtedness in markets with incomplete financial...

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The effect of social comparison on debt taking: Experimental evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Koch, Melanie - 2019

A number of studies show that there is a link between social comparison and high levels of household debt. However, the exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we perform a lab experiment designed to study the eff ects of social image concerns and peer...

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