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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 …

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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.

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. …

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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Sinning, Mathias; Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host countryspecific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...

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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. …

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