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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2011
-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a … regional entrepreneurship culture. Such an entrepreneurial culture could maybe even outwear considerable 'jumps' in the … regional entrepreneurship in three different scenarios with different degrees of changes of the economic conditions. The basic …
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : what drives the self-selection of internal migrants in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011 - Preliminary Version: March 3, 2011
This paper examines the determinants of internal migration in a context where wages tend to be rather inflexible at a regional scale so that regional labor demand shocks have a prolonged impact on employment rates. Regional income differentials, then, reflect both regional pay and employment...
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Spatial distribution dynamics
Gerolimetto, Margherita; Magrini, Stefano - 2015 - Very preliminary version, this version: June 12, 2015
It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the literature adopting the regression approach is now fully aware that neglecting this feature may lead to inaccurate results and has therefore suggested a number of statistical tools...
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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010
the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage … the immigrant wage gap. This is especially true for workers from Poland, Portugal, Italy and Slovakia. For all other …
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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?
Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012
The population growth of cities in industrialized countries is characterized by striking disparities. While some cities experience a kind of resurgence in recent years others suffer from an ongoing depopulation. In this context an important issue refers to the question whether labour market...
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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012
Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...
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Does immigration fosters the Algerian exports? : a static and dynamic analysis
Hadjou, Lamara - 2015
Algeria has a large immigrant population. It is the third largest African community in the world after that of Egypt …
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Immigration vs. poverty : causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment
Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2020 - This draft: February 19, 2020
In a survey experiment conducted in Germany, we investigate how preferences over both the financing and the provision of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no detectable impact on the progressivity of the respondents'...
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The impact of immigration on productivity
Llull, Joan - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 27-58). 2020
zeroes of displaced workers are averaged in), and +0.12 on the wages of those who remain working. The effect on immigrant …
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The contribution of migration to economics growth : evidence from Spain
Mihi-Ramírez, Antonio; Ojeda-González, Sara; … - In: Open economics 1 (2018) 1, pp. 124-130
Productivity is crucial for economic growth. In a time of challenges such as the population ageing, a growing migration flows and slowdown of the economy it is very important to know the impact of migrant workers in productivity and development. Therefore, this paper studies relevant migration...
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