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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries
Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives? sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration … are relatively more concerned with immigrations impact on social issues such as crime than on the employment effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262395
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What are Migration Networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272878
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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272879
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The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2004
, provides a short description of recent German policy initiatives regarding the temporary immigration of high-skilled labour. In … view of our descriptive results these temporary immigration policies seem, however, to satisfy only partly the demand of … firms interested in recruiting foreign high-skilled workers. A more comprehensive immigration policy covering also the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261769
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262689
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The savings behavior of temporary and permanent migrants in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2005
This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), our findings reveal significant differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267503
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Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection
Bauer, Thomas K.; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vogler, Michael; … - 1998
Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276188
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Labor market effects of immigration: Evidence from neighborhood data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2011
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278684
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap
Bauer, Thomas K.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
domestic labor markets and the selection policies used to shape the nature of the immigration flow. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703426
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The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), our findings reveal significant differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703745