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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...

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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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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...

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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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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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A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap

Bauer, Thomas K.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, … - 2007

This paper investigates the source of the gap in the relative wealth position of immigrant households residing in Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and the United States wealth differentials are largely the result of disparity in the educational...

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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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Computational Economic Modeling of Migration

Klabunde, Anna - 2014

. It is shown that expected earnings, an idiosyncratic home bias, network ties to other migrants, strength of links to the … migration as well as the distribution of number of trips of migrants. It is shown how it can also be used for computational …In dieser Studie wird ein agentenbasiertes Modell zum Migrationskreislauf mexikanischer Migranten in die USA eingeführt …

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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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