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In this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we analyze both the departure and the return from abroad...
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This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally … associated with workers hourly wages; the negative effect of routine tasks is most pronounced in high-skilled non …
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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and … well. Allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error, we findthat reservation wages are 25% lower than they …
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' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … Ghana and Egypt. The network effects of potential migrants turn out to be less important than one might expect from actual …
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? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …
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wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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expected to exert a downward pressure on wages. We revisit this issue by applying meta-analytic techniques to a sample of … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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In this laboratory experiment we study the use of strategic ignorance to delegate real authority within a firm. A worker can gather information on investment projects, while a manager makes the implementation decision. The manager can monitor the worker. This allows her to better exploit the...
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