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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration
Peri, Giovanni; Iranzo, Susana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
-called "brain drain") from Eastern European countries would not only benefit the migrants but, through trade, could benefit the …
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
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Sorting within and across establishments : the immigrant-native wage differential in Germany
Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"Using new and unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, I examine the extent to which immigrants sort into worse-paying establishments and worse job positions within establishments. The results demonstrate that recent immigrants are particularly likely to work at low-paying workplaces....
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Economic Returns to Speaking ‘Standard Mandarin’ Among Migrants in China’s Urban Labour Market
Gao, Wenshu; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2009
returns to speaking standard Mandarin among internal migrants in China’s urban labour market. The paper builds on studies that … earnings. We find that for migrants as a whole, there are considerable economic returns to speaking standard Mandarin. We also … return to investment in language skills is higher. Another explanation is that female migrants are more likely to marry local …
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for … provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …
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The Effect of Ethnic Clustering on Migrant Integration in Germany
Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants could be important for integration policies, especially in the light of rising immigration and a skilled worker shortage. Yet, both economic theory and empirical research for...
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Education, Mobility and the College Wage Premium
Lkhagvasuren, Damba - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2006
Motivated by large educational differences in geographic mobility, this paper considers a simple dynamic extension of Roy's (1951) model and analyzes it using new evidence on net versus excess mobility and the individual-level relationship between mobility and wages. According to the model, the...
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Changes in the Czech Wage Structure: Does Immigration Matter?
DYBCZAK, Kamil; GALUSCAK, Kamil - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 63 (2013) 2, pp. 108-128
We find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that changes in...
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Socio-economic profile of return migrants: case of Moroccan migrants resident in France
Bouoiyour, Bouoiyour , Jamal; Miftah, Miftah , Amal - In: European Economic Letters 3 (2014) 1, pp. 26-31
The aim of this study was to explain the determinants of Moroccan migrants return to their home country. We will use … for it a very original database of migrants from Morocco. Using a probit model, our results show that some migrants have a …
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Business culture and entrepreneurship in the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-1864
Gekas, Sakis - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005
This paper explores the emergence of a business culture among merchants and entrepreneurs in the Ionian Islands during the period of British rule (1815-1864). New forms of business organisation (the joint-stock company), and novel commercial practices, such as advertising, represent examples of...
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