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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 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...

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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 …

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Against the one-way-street : analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science

Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - 2010

This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...

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Does immigration weaken natives’ support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage … Europe within a pure wage-based approach failed to replicate the US results. -- Gross migration ; selectivity ; wage …

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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? : empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to … migration takes several years. We conclude that labour mobility is extremely unlikely to act as a sufficient adjustment …

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Local determinants of crime : distinguishing between resident and non-resident offenders

Büttner, Thiess; Spengler, Hannes - 2003

The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non-resident offenders. Employing data for German municipalities, the model is estimated by means of a spatial GMM approach. Focusing on resident offenders legal earnings opportunities...

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Training, mobility, and wages : specific versus general human capital

Garloff, Alfred (contributor); Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2005

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...

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