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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 2014

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the … bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East Germany has fallen … from high levels in 1989-1990 to close to zero. Using state-level data for all of Germany, available from 1991-1996, I am …

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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

Black, Sandra E. - 2007

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …

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Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants

Hunt, Jennifer - 2004

I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio …

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration

Morten, Melanie - 2016

How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...

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The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China

Whalley, John - 2010

We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in recent years. This has previously been little noted or discussed. We use three urban household surveys for 1995, 2002, and 2007 and estimate skill premia at provincial and city...

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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009

We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...

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Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill : New Evidence from the American Past

Kaboski, Joseph - 2007

The existing literature on skill-biased technical change has not considered how the technological endowment itself plays a role in the returns to skill. This paper constructs a simple model of skill biased technical change which highlights the role that resource endowments play in the returns to...

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