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What explains the urban wage premium? Sorting, non-portable or portable agglomeration effects?
Frings, Hanna; Kamb, Rebecca - 2021
wage premium. More explicitly, we distinguish worker sorting, as well as portable and non-portable agglomeration effects … used for identification and provide guidance how this selectivity can be reduced. Agglomeration effects explain about one … third of the urban wage premium, with portable and non-portable agglomeration effects being of similar importance. …
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Agglomerations, tasks and wage growth
Perl, Maximilian - 2023
agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the city-size wage gap. After 15 years of work experience in Munich the cumulative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000379
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Wage growth, urbanization, and firm characteristics: Evidence for Germany
Kelle, Markus - 2016
could be explained by faster learning or human capital accumulation of workers. However, this effect turns insignificant … wagelevel firm fixed effects. This indicates that such a learning effect may occur rather within firms than between workers in a …
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684808
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The Effect of Tuition Fees on Student Enrollment and Location Choice – Interregional Migration, Border Effects and Gender Differences
Alecke, Björn; Burgard, Claudia; Mitze, Timo - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of tuition fees on the university enrollment and location decision of high school graduates in Germany. After a Federal Constitutional Court decision in 2005, 7 out of 16 German federal states introduced tuition fees for higher education. In the empirical...
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Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity: Evidence from German neighborhoods
Dang, Rui - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on...
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The impact of cultural diversity on the German housing market
Bayar, Mehmet - 2016
This paper documents a positive impact of cultural diversity and cultural similarity on rental prices of the German districts for the years between 2004 and 2013. On the one hand, an increase of the Herfindahl index as a measure for cultural diversity of 0.1 would increase rents by over 12...
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Business cycle synchronization in the EMU: Core vs. periphery
Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens; Gros, Daniel - 2016
This paper examines business cycle synchronization in the European Monetary Union with a special focus on the core-periphery pattern in the aftermath of the crisis. Using a quarterly index for business cycle synchronization by Cerqueira (2013), our panel data estimates suggest that it is...
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Ageing by feet? Regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities
Neumann, Uwe - 2016
In countries with an ageing population, regional migration may accentuate local progress in demographic change. This paper investigates whether and to what extent diversity in ageing among urban neighbourhoods in Germany was reinforced by regional migration during the past two decades. The...
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