Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 185
Cover Image
What drives remittances during a global shock? : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
Ambrosius, Christian; Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; … - 2021
During a global shock two forces act upon international remittances in opposite directions: income losses among … migrants may reduce their ability to send remittances and, at the same time, migrants' concern for their family's wellbeing may … prompt them to send more remittances back home. Which of these drivers prevail is an empirical matter. We assemble quarterly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607034
Cover Image
Do remittances increase borrowing?
Ambrosius, Christian; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2014
reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans from formal or informal sources among Mexican households and finds positive … and statistically significant effects of remittances on borrowing and on the existence of debts. We address methodological … distance to train lines and labor market conditions in the US as exogenous determinants of remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403217
Cover Image
Heterogeneity in migration network effects across cultures
Bogatzki, Tamara - 2021
I empirically assess the importance of socially interdependent origin cultures as opposed to socially independent ones for network effects in inter-national migration. I propose that societies that emphasise collectivist behaviour accumulate larger levels of communityspecific social capital than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589738
Cover Image
ZEW-EviSTA : a microsimulation model of the German tax and transfer system
Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022 - First version: June 2022
This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013281463
Cover Image
On household labour supply in sticky-wage HANK models
Gerke, Rafael; Giesen, Sebastian; Lozej, Matija; … - 2024 - November 24, 2023
Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models with sticky nominal wages usually assume that wage-setting unions demand the same amount of hours from all households. As a result, unions do not take account of the fact that (i) households are heterogeneous in their willingness to work, and that (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467926
Cover Image
Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative dataset that includes information on almost every Italian citizen living abroad. Since Italy takes a middle ground in terms of redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010530
Cover Image
Die Arbeitserlaubnis als Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zur Steuerung internationaler Zuwanderung auf den Arbeitsmarkt
Velling, Johannes - 1995
Die Arbeitserlaubnis ist das wichtigste Instrument zur Kontrolle des Arbeitsmarktzugangs von ausländischen Immigranten. Die Erteilung einer allgemeinen Arbeitserlaubnis wird - unter Beachtung des Anwerbestopps - normalerweise nur dann vorgenommen, wenn kein Deutscher oder gleichberechtigter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622473
Cover Image
Brexit, collective uncertainty and migration decisions
Auer, Daniel; Tetlow, Daniel - 2020
Brexit - the United Kingdom leaving the European Union - continues to create an unpredictable social and political landscape. Uncertainty and perceptions are influential drivers when it comes to migration decisions, and yet, the literature's inference typically relies on individual-level data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261129
Cover Image
How do regional labor markets adjust to immigration? : a dynamic analysis for post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Weber, Henning - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452756
Cover Image
Alleviating unemployment traps in Finland: Can the efficiency-equity trade-off be avoided?
Honkanen, Pertti; Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2007
Using a new comprehensive tax-benefit model, JUTTA, this paper examines how labour supply incentives – both to participate in the labour force (the “extensive” margin) and to supply extra hours of work (the “incentive” margin) – have changed in Finland in 1995-2007. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502978