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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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The Effect of Ethnic Clustering on Migrant Integration in Germany
Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - 2014
großer Bedeutung. Hier lässt sich häufig beobachten, dass Migranten gleicher oder ähnlicher Herkunft gemeinsam in der … Hinweis darauf, ob diese ethnische Segregation förderlich oder hinderlich für die Integration von Migranten ist. Insbesondere … Segregation auf den Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Migranten analysiert. Dabei wird der Arbeitsmarkterfolg als Erwerbsbeteiligung zum …
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The Effect of Ethnic Clustering on Migrant Integration in Germany
Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants could be important for integration policies, especially in the light of rising immigration and a skilled worker shortage. Yet, both economic theory and empirical research for...
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Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
Demir, Gökay - 2023
This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of the minimum wage on workers and industries outside the minimum wage sector. The results show that...
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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap: Evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518188
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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023
We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420665
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264729
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration – Evidence from Neighborhood Data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2011
This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274445