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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904270

Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874641

Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961829

Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

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...

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Agenda 2020 : Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung

Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

Mit diesem Strategiepapier zeigt das Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) Wege auf, wie Deutschland in der vor uns … : Deutschland ist auch auf qualifizierte Zuwanderung angewiesen, um den Problemen von Demografie und Fachkräftemangel gewachsen zu … Arbeitsmigranten kann der ökonomische Nutzen der Zuwanderung wesentlich vergrößert und ein zusätzlicher Impuls für die Verwirklichung …

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Agenda 2020 : strategies to achieve full employment in Germany

Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This strategy paper by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) shows ways in which Germany once more can attain full employment in the coming decade. Much of what the previous government's "Agenda 2010" has put into motion has clearly steered labor market development in the right direction....

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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2023

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...

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