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Kombilohn oder Workfare? : zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien

Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …

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The phantom of the opera : cultural amenities, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2010

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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The long-term direct and external effects of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …

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Immigration policy in integrated national economies

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

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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Why do firms recruit internationally? : results from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...

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Skill biased technological and organizational change : estimating a mixed simultaneous equation model using the IAB establishment panel

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

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