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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2008
Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...
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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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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data
Walewski, Mateusz - 2009
innovations and skill-biased wage changes. The results indicate that innovations positively influence the wages of skilled workers … while they negatively influence the wages of the unskilled. …
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The Value of Skills
Green, Francis - 1998
Many commentators have argued that "key skills" are becoming more important in modern workplaces. This paper draws on a survey that uses a methodology based on job analysis to measure skills at work, and estimates their implicit prices using a hedonic wage equation. The main new findings are...
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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2006
high school degree). A precise assessment of the average and relative effects of immigrants on U.S. wages, however, needs … the wages of natives without a high school degree. … adjustment of physical capital induced by immigration, the conventional finding of immigration's impact on native wages is turned …
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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010
redundancies. This results in superior predictions of individual wages and occupational switches. It also allows identifying career …
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The growth and valuation of generic skills
Dickerson, Andy; Green, Francis - 2002
Using a method for measuring job skills derived from survey data on detailed work activities, we show that between 1997 and 2001 there was a growth in Britain in the utilisation of computing skills, literacy, numeracy, technical know-how, high-level communication skills, planning skills, client...
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What Next for School Vouchers?
Peterson, Paul E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 57-61
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School Choice and School Quality in the US
Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38
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Product market reforms, labour market institutions and unemployment
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Macartney, Gareth - 2006
We analyze the impact of product market competition on unemployment and wages, and how this depends on labour market …. We also find that the effect of increased competition on real wages is beneficial to workers, but less so when they have … competition. We find that increased product market competition reduces unemployment, and that it does so more in countries with …
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