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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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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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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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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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Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks

Braun, Sebastian; Kramer, Anica; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017

This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a...

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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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Deciding who works where : an analysis of the distribution of work within native and immigrant families win Australia

Basilio, Leilanie - 2009

The paper examines whether there is an asymmetry in the distribution of market work and domestic work within families in Australia, and to what extent differences in earnings capacities of spouses can account for the division of labor. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca Tobit-type decomposition, we find...

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A comparative analysis of the nativity wealth gap

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

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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet … Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational … attainments than natives, and that within the group of migrants, Jewish migrants perform better than ethnic German migrants. A …

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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012

Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...

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