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large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …
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also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …
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This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can follow their children after they have...
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This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our...
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comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …
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Germany. We show evidence that job mobility is higher in the UK than in Germany, and that job movers may be negatively … selected in Germany, but not in the UK. Our findings suggest that returns to experience are substantially higher in the UK … in the UK and 30 percent in Germany. Separate estimates for different qualification groups show that in Germany, it is …
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