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Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills
Budría, Santiago - 2012
People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual's set of non-cognitive skills. Using the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108266
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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146175
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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765613
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Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills
Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - 2006
Several papers have tested the empirical validity of the migration models proposed by Borjas (1987) and Borjas, Bronars, and Trejo (1992). However, to our knowledge, none has been able to disentangle the separate impact of observable and unobservable individual characteristics, and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059819
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Risk Attitudes and Migration
Akgüc, Mehtap - 2015
To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014733
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East-West Migration and Gender : Is There a 'Double Disadvantage' vis-à-vis Stayers?
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2021
This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317015
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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
Jaeger, David A.; Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas J.; … - 2021
markets in Germany. This result is robust to stratifying by age, sex, education, national origin, and a variety of other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317190
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Are Immigrants More Mobile than Natives? Evidence from Germany
Schundeln, Matthias - 2021
market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the … Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living in Germany. The first contribution of this paper is to quantify the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324871
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Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks : The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2013
terms of covariate distributions of the treatment and comparison groups – using propensity score matching.We find a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087423
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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan - 2009
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill cells, where the cells are defined by groups with similar levels of experience and education (or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155476