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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...

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What are migration networks?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.

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Herd effects or migration networks? : the location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2002

interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance …

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Immigration policy, assimilation of immigrants and natives' sentiments towards immigrants : evidence from 12 OECD-countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It first reviews the assimilation literature in economics...

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that …

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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - 2011

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...

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Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2002

, dass eine auf die Arbeitsmarkt- und Integrationsfähigkeit von Migranten ausgerichtete selektive Zuwanderungspolitik, wie …

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A comparative analysis of the nativity wealth gap

Bauer, Thomas K.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, … - 2007

This paper investigates the source of the gap in the relative wealth position of immigrant households residing in … largely the result of disparity in the educational attainment and demographic composition of the native and immigrant … substantial cross-national disparity in the economic well-being of immigrant and native families, which is largely consistent with …

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Employer learning and the returns to schooling

Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2000

We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor market experience and increase with initially...

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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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