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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 … internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …

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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012

economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580162

There goes the neighborhood? : people's attitudes and the effects of immigration to Australia

Sinning, Mathias; Vorell, Matthias - 2011

overestimate the effect of immigration on crime. -- International migration ; effects of immigration ; attitudes towards immigrants …

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Making dough or baking dough? : spousal housework responsibilities in Germany, 1992 - 2011

Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - 2014

Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of three questions: (1) Does an individual’s contribution to household income - both in absolute and relative terms - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2)...

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Computational economic modeling of migration

Klabunde, Anna - 2014

of migration and return decisions. Individuals are connected by links, the strength of which declines over time and … distance. Methodologically, this paper combines parameterization using data from the Mexican Migration Project with calibration … home country and age have a significant impact on circular migration patterns. The model can reproduce spatial patterns of …

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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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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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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice

Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, proxied by linguistic distance, are...

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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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