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The employment effects of immigration : evidence from the mass arrival of German expellees in post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2011

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were close substitutes to the native West German...

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How do regional labor markets adjust to immigration? : a dynamic analysis for post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Weber, Henning - 2016

affect the nature of the immigration inflow can effectively reduce native income losses and dampen adjustment dynamics in … regional labor markets. One such intervention is to distribute the inflow more evenly over time. Smaller immigration inflows …

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The labor market performance of first-generation immigrants : evidence for Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - 1999

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as an indicator and natives as the reference group for the analysis. The analysis proceeds in two steps. In a first step, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are...

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Conflicting identities : cosmopolitan or anxious? : appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants

Heidland, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2016

Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...

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Germany - an immigration country

Siebert, Horst (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Long-run determinants of immigration to Germany 1974 - 1999 : a Ricardian framework

Foders, Federico - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Migration and wage-setting : reassessing the labor market effects of migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2009

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage …-setting curve is particularly high for young and well-educated workers. The labor market effects of immigration are moderate: a 1 … percent increase in the German labor force through immigration increases the unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage …

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …

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Empirical characteristics of legal and illegal immigrants in the US

Caponi, Vincenzo; Plesca, Miana - 2013

We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on all immigrants to the U.S., legal and illegal ones. Using econometric methodology proposed by Lancaster and Imbens (1996) we...

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Setting the bar – an experimental investigation of immigration requirements

Khadjavi, Menusch; Tjaden, Jasper D. - 2014

immigration. The dynamics and underlying processes of setting immigration requirements remain unclear as research so far mainly … different levels of perceived migrant potential and public debate shape immigration requirements. We employ the minimal group … paradigm and immigration requirements are set by in-group voting. Our results suggest that fairness and efficiency of …

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