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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297670
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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/10010298032
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298120
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011028
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097796
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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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/10005097867
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098165
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Early life conditions, time preferences, and savings
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Colombo, Mattia; Triviza, Eleftheria - 2024
This study examines how early-life exposure to food scarcity influences individuals' long-term time preferences and savings behavior. To this end, we analyze hand-collected historical data on livestock availability during World War II at the provincial level, alongside detailed survey data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014633232
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How do taxes affect the trading behavior of private investors? Evidence from individual portfolio data
Buhlmann, Florian; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Voget, Johannes; … - 2020
We exploit a large reform of capital-gains taxation in Germany combined with portfolio-level daily panel data to study the causal effect of taxes on individual stock-trading behavior and the disposition effect. We find substantial spikes in selling probabilities around an intertemporal tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296771
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How do different compensation schemes and loss experience affect insurance decisions? Experimental evidence from two independent and heterogeneous samples
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2020
Although natural hazard insurance is advocated as an important means of risk management, private insurance demand often remains below critical levels. Prior loss experience and the design of governmental relief schemes are two factors potentially influencing insurance decisions. We address these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387000