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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market

Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that differences in the employment trajectories of migrants and natives …

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The productivity effect of migrants : wage cost advantages and heterogeneous firms

Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different...

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Migration, unemployment and skill downgrading : a specific-factors approach

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013

"This paper analyzes the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labor market in a specific factors two-sector model with heterogeneous labor (low-, medium-, and highly-skilled) and price- and wage-setting behavior. The low- and medium-skilled labor markets are...

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Recruiting abroad: the role of foreign affinity and labour market scarcity

Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013

"I study the recruiting behaviour of German establishments with regard to the use of foreign labour markets. Applying instrumental variable strategies, I find foreign affinity and labour market scarcity to stimulate the use of foreign markets. Regional labour market scarcity is particularly...

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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants : quasi-experimental evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany (Ethnische Konzentration und Sprachkompetenz von Ei...

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It … solves the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were … initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a robust negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …

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Labour market entry of migrants in Germany : does cultural diversity matter?

Haas, Anette; Damelang, Andreas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

of cultural diversity, young migrants will find employment more easily. In contrast to other studies which emphasize the …

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Macroeconomic consequences of migration diversion : a CGE simulation for Germany and the UK

Baas, Timo; Brücker, Herbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

employment gains, but also with a smaller wage increase and a smaller decline of the unemployment rate. The diversion of … migration flows away from Germany towards the UK yields thus a higher GDP and employment growth in the UK. The joint GDP of …

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