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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
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Not Welcome Anymore: The Effect of Electoral Incentives on the Reception of Refugees
Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018
Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...
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Does labour mobility reduce disparities between regional labour markets in Germany?
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Granato, Nadia; Haas, Anette; … - 2010
2005. Considering the impact of migration as well as commuting, effects on regional wages and unemployment are estimated …, models that include externalities or selective migration suggest that regional differences might well increase due to … interregional migration of workers. We investigate the impact of labour mobility on regional disparities in Germany between 1995 and …
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Does labour mobility reduce disparities between regional labour markets in Germany?
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Granato, Nadia; Haas, Anette; … - 2009
Unterschiede in den regionalen Arbeitsmarktbedingungen prägen Deutschland seit längerem, besonders zwischen dem östlichen und dem westlichen Landesteil. Üblicherweise postulieren neoklassische Modelle, dass die Mobilität der Arbeitskräfte zur Angleichung regionaler Bedingungen führt. Im...
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How to woo the smart ones? Evaluating the determinants that particularly attract highly qualified people to cities
Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2014
by investigating the determinants of the migration balance of German cities between 2000 and 2010. Furthermore, it … compares the effects of several labour- and amenity-related variables on migration rates of highly qualified workers and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435408
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A migráció és a magyar migránsok jellemzői 1999 - 2011: Tendenciák és a migránsok profilja a KSH Munkaerő-felmérés adatai alapján
Czibik, Ágnes; Hajdu, Miklós; Németh, Nándor; … - 2014
In this paper we use the Hungarian Central Statistical Office's Labour Force Survey to examine the rate of Hungarian inhabitants working abroad between 1999 and 2011. We also examine the characteristics of this group. A break in trend can be observed in the fourth quarter of 2009 in the rate of...
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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2013
distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as 'college towns' and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...
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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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The Within-Country Distribution of Brain Drain and Brain Gain Effects: A Case Study on Senegal
Bocquier, Philippe; Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
educational opportunities. These results extend to internal migration, implying that highly vulnerable populations are trapped in …
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