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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011

federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the data allows us to overcome some of the identifi cation problems which … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. -- Social interactions ; unemployment ; neighborhood …

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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - 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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Internal migration, regional labour market dynamics and implications for German East-West disparities : results from a panel VAR

Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - 2009

get evidence for such a puzzle throughout the mid-1990s, which is likely to be caused by huge West-East income transfers …

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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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Demographics, labor market power and the spatial equilibrium

Furbach, Nina - 2023

This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial concentration of population. I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic composition of the local workforce. Using highly...

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The effect of ethnic clustering on migrant integration in Germany

Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - 2014

market integration are used: the employment probability and wage levels. In order to control for the endogeneity of the … results suggest a negative enclave effect on both employment and wages, that is even larger when sorting is taken into account. …

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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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Religious terrorism, forced migration, and women's empowerment : evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency

Elice, Paola; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2023

We examine the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. We find positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their use of modern contraceptive methods, and rejection of...

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Discrimination in grading? : evidence on teachers' evaluation bias towards minority students

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2024

We analyze whether teachers discriminate against ethnic minority students in terms of grading. Using comprehensive data on students in German primary and secondary schools, we compare students’ scores in standardized, anonymously graded achievement tests with non-anonymous teacher ratings...

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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018

In this article, we analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect the educational achievement and social integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity...

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