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Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test scores. But critics warn that these effects may arise through the strategic behavior of students and...
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Das Papier analysiert die Auswirkungen von Signalen über das erreichte Bildungsniveau von (Spät-)Aussiedlern und 'übrigen Deutschen'. Die Analyse beruht auf der Sorting-Theorie mit produktivitätserhöhenden Effekten der Bildung. Aus dieser theoretischen Analyse folgen vier Hypothesen,...
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-EU immigrants in Germany. Using detailed administrative social security and survey data in a dfference-in-differences design, we … find that the reform increased the share of non-EU immigrants with occupational recognition by 5 percentage points, raising … inflow of non-EU immigrants in regulated occupations, we find no evidence that these immigrants had lower skills or that they …
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This study investigates the multifaceted factors influencing immigrants' naturalization intentions, with a primary … groups, such as refugees, European Union (EU) citizens, and non-EU citizens. Employing a vignette experiment among immigrants … immigrants' naturalization intentions. These results underline the importance of citizenship policy for the naturalization …
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literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany … include recently arrived refugees (the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees) and other immigrants (the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample …) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results …
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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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composition of immigrants in Germany. Using individual-level survey data on immigrants from different cohorts over the period 2000 …
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We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential … unobservables that drive individual participation decisions, we find that immigrants with higher gains are more likely to select … into language training than immigrants with lower gains. We document up to 15 percent higher employment rates and 13 …
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In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less …
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We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps in Germany and we provide first evidence for the...
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