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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with human capital framework and …
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determinants receive, at least in Germany. While wages are affected negatively by a relative increase in imports, immigration …
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We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … market shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more "greening" of …
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Beschäftigung und Einkommensverteilung und legt eine Abschätzung der zu erwartenden Wirkungen in Deutschland vor. Eine systematische …
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recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in … workers is obtained by means of an endogenous switching model and used to estimate the employment choice. The procedure is …-migration employment histories. Findings – Self-employed migrants are positively selected with respect to their unobserved characteristics …
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approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the east-west gap has been diminishing since 2005—to around 12 percent in 2013 … injustice in western Germany increases. One of the reasons why a relatively high level of perceived wage inequality persists in … eastern Germany is the fact that there are still differences between East and West in incomes within occupations. Evidence of …
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third in western Germany. Although the east-west gap has been diminishing since 2005--to around 12 percent in 2013--this is …
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation
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