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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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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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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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What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - 2006
By examining the destination choice patterns of heterogenous labor, this paper tries to explain the skill composition of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297833
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What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
By examining the destination choice patterns of heterogenous labor, this paper tries to explain the skill composition of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098225
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036709
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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018
This study analyses the selection of recently arrived asylum seekers from Middle Eastern and African countries in Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used for human capital - when compared to same-aged persons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911965
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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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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