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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

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Sorties from the Fortress: The Current System of Anti-Immigration Policy in Germany

Rotte, Ralph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

This paper gives a short synoptical overview of the most important elements of current anti-immigration policy in …

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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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Crime, Unemployment, and Xenophobia? An Ecological Analysis of Right-Wing Election Results in Hamburg, 1986−2005

Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of … general social deprivation and immigration. Nevertheless they indicate that one has to be very cautious when interpreting the … unemployment/crime - right-winger nexus. Moreover, crime does not seem to have a strong significant effect on right-wing populist …

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