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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

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Migration und Integration: Deutschland als Einwanderungsland - "... denn ihr seid selbst Fremde in Ägypten gewesen"

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

selbstbewusster und unaufgeregter Umgang mit den Themen Migration und Integration angeregt, zu dem Deutschland leider bislang nicht …

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Migration und Integration : Deutschland als Einwanderungsland – „... denn ihr seid selbst Fremde in Ägypten gewesen“

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

selbstbewusster und unaufgeregter Umgang mit den Themen Migration und Integration angeregt, zu dem Deutschland leider bislang nicht …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841597

How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

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Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI … differential, which in turn is used to model the employment choice. The procedure is extended to account for migration selectivity …

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Agenda Zuwanderung: ein Zehn-Punkte-Aktionsplan für gesteuerte Arbeitsmigration und bessere Integration

Hinte, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 46, pp. 17-25

Die aktuelle deutsche Diskussion um Zuwanderung und Integration ist von erheblicher Bedeutung für die ökonomische und soziale Zukunft Deutschlands. Nach langen Jahren eklatanter Versäumnisse bietet sich jetzt die Chance, mit überlebten Tabus zu brechen und Deutschland zuwanderungspolitisch...

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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