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Job search, locus of control, and internal migration
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2016
Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards … reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the … for the pattern of internal migration that results. Unlike standard search models, we assume that job seekers do not know …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454477
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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600753
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Leben außerhalb Deutschlands: eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Realisierung von Auslandsbefragungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Schupp, Jürgen; Siegel, Nico A.; Erlinghagen, Marcel; … - 2008
Mit der Pilotstudie „Leben außerhalb Deutschlands“ beschreitet die Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) absolutes methodisches Neuland, indem versucht wird, die Adressen ausgewanderter Teilnehmer des deutschen Haushaltspanels SOEP im Ausland zu recherchieren und die...
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Goodbye Germany - und dann? Erste Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie zur Befragung von Auswanderern aus Deutschland
Erlinghagen, Marcel; Stegmann, Tim - 2009
understanding of migration as a fundamentally open-ended process - open up new empirical perspectives for migration research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600837
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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness': Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten Van - 2011
exit from selfemployment are associated with internal migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601055
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … careers provides an important methodological advance. In addition, it emphasises the importance of mobility and immobility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601059
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613463
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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902256
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Migrant's pursuit of happiness. The impact of adaption, social comparison and relative deprivation: Evidence from a "natural" experiment
Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. - 2012
inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of … Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after migration … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286907
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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012
distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290718