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Bratu, Mihaela; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

Internet or "big" data are increasingly measuring the relevant activities of individuals, households, firms and public … experimental settings. Therefore, internet data are extremely useful to study a wide variety of human resource issues including … unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...

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Migration and consumption

Misuraca, Roberta; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - Draft: April 2024

A scarce literature deals with the consumption implications of cultural assimilation and integration, ethnic clustering and diasporas, the marginal propensity to consume, home production and allocation of time, ethnic consumption, migration, and trade, as well as native consumption responses....

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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

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Democracy and COVID-19 outcomes

Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021

More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...

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How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Vu Minh Ngo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Nguyen Van Phuc; … - 2021 - Draft: November 11, 2021

Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the process to vaccination success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines, pandemic pressures, economic strength (GDP),...

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Inter-country distancing, globalization and the Coronavirus pandemic

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Karabulut, Gokhan; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2020 - This draft: April 24, 2020

Originating in China, the Coronavirus has reached the world at different speeds and levels of strength. This paper provides some initial understanding of some driving factors and their consequences. Since transmission requires people, the human factor behind globalization is essential....

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