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Migration response to an immigration shock: Evidence from Russia's aggression against Ukraine

Zuchowski, David - 2023

Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine … the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in … internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …

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Computational Economic Modeling of Migration

Klabunde, Anna - 2014

of migration and return decisions. Individuals are connected by links, the strength of which declines over time and … distance. Methodologically, this paper combines parameterization using data from the Mexican Migration Project with calibration … home country and age have a significant impact on circular migration patterns. The model can reproduce spatial patterns of …

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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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Sorting in an urban housing market - is there a response to demographic change?

Neumann, Uwe; Taruttis, Lisa - 2018

In urban areas, there is considerable neighbourhood-level variation in population characteristics. Using Dortmund as a case study we analyse whether and to what extent rents, housing prices and segregation dynamics corresponded with demographic ageing in urban neighbourhoods between 2007 and...

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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants

Giesecke, Matthias; Schuss, Eric - 2019

We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...

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Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants

Brenner, Jan - 2007

We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using twelve waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel.The German labor market closely ties job accessibility to vocational education which likely hampers the transferability of foreign...

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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Schurer, Stefanie - 2008

The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...

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Life-Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings – Evidence for German Natives and Guest Workers

Brenner, Jan - 2009

In many economic models a central variable of interest is lifetime or permanent income which is not observed in survey data sets and typically proxied by annual income information. To assess the quality of such approximations, we use a unique source of lifetime earnings - the German pension...

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Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities – Results from a Panel VAR

Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - 2009

This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among … of the particular East-West migration since re-unification aiming to shed more light on the East German empirical puzzle …, characterized by lower migration responses than expected from the regional labour market position relative to the West. We indeed …

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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