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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2020

This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary school. Exploring within-student variation in assignment to teachers, I find that teachers who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants significantly increase the reading...

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Determinants of savings and remittances : empirical evidence from immigrants to Germany

Sinning, Mathias (contributor) - 2007

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Effects of job entry restrictions on economic integration : evidence for recent ethnic German immigrants

Brenner, Jan (contributor) - 2007

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Individualism vs. collectivism : how inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017

Die Integration von Migranten im Aufnahmeland ist stark mit deren Erfolg am Arbeitsmarkt verbunden. Für letzteres … kulturellen Werten auf die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Migranten bisher jedoch kaum untersucht. Daher analysiert dieses Papier … den Zusammenhang zwischen kollektivistischen Werten im Herkunftsland und der Arbeitsmarktsituation von Migranten der …

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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

Following the seminal work of Chiswick (1978), many studies have examined the extent to which earnings of immigrants vary over the settlement process. While these studies usually find that the initial earnings gap between native and immigrant workers in traditional immigration countries...

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Mental health assimilation of Australian immigrants

Janisch, Laura M. - 2017

that the probability of suffering from poor mental health increases with time since migration. In addition, female …

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Quasi-experimental methods in empirical regional science and policy analysis : is there a scope for application?

Mitze, Timo; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Alecke, Björn - 2012

revolution has yet to fully propagate to the field of regional science. We examine the scope for application of the matching … the matching approach is very appealing due to its methodological rigor and didactical clarity, we faced difficulties in … structural characteristics. Thus, results have to be interpreted with some caution. The matching approach nevertheless can be of …

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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market

Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Educational mismatch has been discussed extensively, mostly by applying OLS wage regressions which are prone to an unobserved heterogeneity bias. This problem is...

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Educational mismatch and mobility

Roller, Christiane; Rulff, Christian; Tamminga, Michael M. - 2019

With increasing educational attainment in Germany, the issue of inefficient human capital allocation gains importance. Especially overeducation seems to be a problem, since more and more highly educated individuals are required to take jobs that do not match their educational level, settling for...

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Skill mismatch and learning-by-doing : theory and evidence from time allocation on tasks

Storm, Eduard - 2023

This paper studies wage effects and job mobility as a result of skill mismatch in worker- occupation pairs. I develop a Roy model in which learning on the job induces workers to shift more time towards job-specific activities. Using a short task panel containing data on worker’s time...

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