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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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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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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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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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Optimal policy: which, where, and why

Furtado, Bernardo Alves; Andreão, Gustav Onofre - 2023

The paper exploits a simulation environment and its output indicators to compare the performance of "ex-ante" policy instruments across housing and social welfare domains. We create a progressive score to contrast six single and mixed policy instruments against a no-policy baseline. The multiple...

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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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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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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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The distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU

Lang, Valentin - 2024

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...

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