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Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...
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This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical … analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status … low-skilled immigrants. …
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In March 1996, the Bundestag introduced a minimum wage law for the German construction business in order to protect native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries. This Entsendegesetz (Posted Workers Act) was backed formally by the EU Posted Workers Directive...
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Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese...
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Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German … marked by selection criteria (language tests), de facto quotas, and mobility restrictions. Although the immigration of … labor. Over the last few years, unemployment among Ethnic Germans in the workforce has increased. This study concludes that …
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Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the receiving countries. This would also serve best the...
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Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is...
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According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...
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The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have … factor in explaining the European unemployment problem. …
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