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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 Poland. For identification, I use an instrumental variable...
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Estonia and the European Monetary Union : are there benefits from a “late” accession?
Baas, Timo - 2014
The failure of the Maastricht criteria delayed Estonia’s accession to the European Monetary Union (EMU) until January 2011. During this time, trading shares with Eurozone countries declined, raising questions about the optimal accession time. In this study, the macroeconomic effects of...
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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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Is intent to migrate irregularly responsive to recent German asylum policy adjustments?
Beber, Bernd; Ebert, Cara; Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024
We investigate the extent to which asylum policies that aim to deter individuals from migrating irregularly in fact do so. We specifically consider effects of Germany's recent and high-profile asylum policy adjustments, which include accelerated asylum decision processes, the prospect of asylum...
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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Effekt einer ansteigenden linguistischen Distanz auf den Spracherwerb von Immigranten in Spanien, den USA und Deutschland …
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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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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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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
Aufenthaltsdauer im Gastland verschwindet, deutet die Evidenz für Deutschland hauptsächlich auf persistente Lohnnachteile für … Doppelkohortenmodell zur Überprüfung der bestehenden Evidenz zu Einkommensassimilationsprozessen von Einwanderern nach Deutschland. Die …
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …Diese Studie analysiert den Bildungserfolg und die Arbeitsmarktintegration von jungen Migranten aus der ehemaligen … Bildungserfolg als Einheimische haben. Innerhalb der Gruppe der Migranten aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sind jüdische Migranten …
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There goes the neighborhood? : people's attitudes and the effects of immigration to Australia
Sinning, Mathias; Vorell, Matthias - 2011
This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about these effects using individual and regional data for Australia. We employ an instrumental variables strategy to account for non-random location choices of immigrants and find...
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