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redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …
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, earnings uncertainty, and job change in the source region. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor … considerably with pre-migration earnings and with the counterfactual considered. Future migrants have worse expectations for their … labor market prospects in the East and migrants show a greater openness to mobility. …
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workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …
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We draw on two decades of historical data to analyze how regional labor markets in West Germany adjusted to one of the largest forced population movements in history, the mass inflow of eight million German expellees after World War II. The expellee inflow was distributed very asymmetrically...
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. We find that the long-run costs and benefits for domestic agents depend critically on the skill levels migrants will … obtain in the long run. A failure to integrate the about 800,000 migrants (equivalent to 1% of initial German population …
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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