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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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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; … - 2011
status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333056
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Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration
Lumpe, Claudia - 2017
-skilled immigrants (stocks) in the main OECD immigration countries. The empirical results suggest that countries with higher "American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011649432
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Immigration and new firm formation: Evidence from a quasi-experimental setting in Germany
Jahn, Vera; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2018
This paper analyzes in how far immigration affects firm formation at the regional level. For this purpose, we exploit a … panel regressions suggest that immigration had a positive impact on regional firm formation. The most likely mechanisms … demonstrates that immigration induced changes in local labor supply can partially be absorbed by the creation of firms. …
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Social status and public expectations: Self-selection of high-skilled migrants
Lumpe, Christian; Lumpe, Claudia; Meckl, Jürgen - 2016
We analyze public expectations about migrants' provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty's (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454023
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Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501321
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246533
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Computational Economic Modeling of Migration
Klabunde, Anna - 2014
In this paper an agent-based model of endogenously evolving migrant networks is developed to identify the determinants of migration and return decisions. Individuals are connected by links, the strength of which declines over time and distance. Methodologically, this paper combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332851
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063183
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264697