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Foreign labour migration and the economic crisis in the EU : ongoing and remaining issues of the migrant workforce in Germany
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
This paper provides an evaluation of the status of migrant workers in Germany amidst the global financial crisis … workers in Germany, where primarily the skilled-workforce concentrated industries of high-value products is affected, has …
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Do migrants lower workplace wages?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017
Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612948
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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023
We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on...
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The impact of a rising wage floor on labour mobility across firms
Forth, John; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Phan, Van; … - 2024
In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost double any in the previous decade and expanded the share of jobs covered by the wage floor by...
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Ethnic German migration since 1989 : results and perspectives
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German … economic situation in Germany deteriorated. Ethnic Germans are basically facing the same difficulties with social and economic … integration as foreigners. A majority of young Ethnic Germans have no cultural or language ties to Germany. Insufficient language …
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824777
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Employment, wages, and the economic cycle : differences between immigrants and natives
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Vogel, Thorsten - 2009
large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899988
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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - 2010
; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938982
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959164
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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ migration duration and saving decisions
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959295