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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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Challenges and opportunities for the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil

Reis, Eustáquio José - 2016

The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition towards a lowcarbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The next section presents long run historical perspectives on the...

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Labor, land and agricultural credit policies and their adverse impacts on poverty in Brazil

Rezende, Gervásio Castro de - 2015

This paper discusses the question of the concentrated pattern of agricultural development in Brazil, as expressed in the predominance of large-scale production, high level of mechanization and low absorption of non-qualified labor. It is proposed, initially, the existence of two conflicting...

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House Price Fluctuations and Residential Sorting

Haavio, Markus; Kauppi, Heikki - 2009

Empirical evidence indicates local jurisdictions are internally more heterogeneous than standard sorting models predict. We develop a dynamic multi-region model, with fluctuating regional house prices, where an owner-occupying household's location choice depends on its current wealth and its...

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Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation and Local Public Goods

Harjunen, Oskari; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne - 2021

We study the link between geographic political representation and geographic distribution of public goods within local jurisdictions using geo-coded data on politicians, the electorate and elementary school closures. We find that poorer neighborhoods are under-represented. Inequality in...

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Demographic change and regional labour markets

Böhm, Michael; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; … - 2020

Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and 2014 to estimate quasi- causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes,...

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

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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Job creation in tight and slack labor markets

Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin; Wilhelm, Matthias - 2019

investment, capital-labor substitution, or regional migration. This leaves crowding-out as the most plausible mechanism. …

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Refugees welcome? : understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-foreigner hate crimes in Germany

Entorf, Horst; Lange, Martin - 2019

In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting the quasi-experimental assignment of asylum seekers to German regions, we estimate the causal effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share...

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Labor market integration of migrants : hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states

König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012

(decreases) the employment level, if the union represents (does not represent) migrant workers. -- migration ; welfare state …

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