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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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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany

Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018 - This version, August 29, 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...

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Life scientist mobility from academe to industry : does academic entrepreneurship induce a costly "brain drain" on the not-for-profit research sector?

Toole, Andrew A. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

When academic researchers participate in commercialization using for-profit firms there is a potentially costly trade-off their time and effort are diverted away from academic knowledge creation. This is a form of brain drain on the not-for-profit research sector which may reduce knowledge...

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"Brain gain" on Wikipedia : immigrants return knowledge home

Slivko, Olga - 2018

Economic literature acknowledges the impact of immigration on cross-border patenting and scientific publications. However, the role of immigration ows in the dissemination of knowledge in a broader sense is yet to be assessed. In this paper, I estimate the effect of immigration on the...

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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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Integrating young male refugees : initial evidence from an inclusive soccer project

Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2017

findings of the survey, focusing on labour market activity, pre-migration characteristics, and the monetary costs of the escape …

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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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Apprenticeship training in Germany - investment or productivity driven?

Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2007

The German dual apprenticeship system came under pressure in recent years because enterprises were not willing to offer a sufficient number of apprenticeship positions. A frequently made argument is that the gap could be closed if more firms would be willing to incur net costs during the...

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...

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