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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 follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy uncertainty. We find that policy uncertainty raises the rate of inventor emigration by a notable magnitude. With a one standard deviation in the policy uncertainty of the home...
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on the propensity to own a home and the quality of housing....
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years, and document key differences to the US case. While the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … adopt a natural experiment approach and capture the restructuring process triggered by the launch of transition by means of … agreements depends on restructuring and its timing in the transition. In early-middle transition firms, industry level agreements …
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