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This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) job complexity and (2) the characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the...
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cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …
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immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system … immigrants. …
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the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …
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employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage … inequality between skill groups for Germans relative to immigrants. The returns to skill for the highest educational attainment … are higher for Germans across the wage distribution compared to immigrants. But within-group inequality for the group with …
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Research findings have proven that the willingness to take risks is distributed heterogeneously among individuals. In the general public, there is a widely held notion that individuals of certain nationalities tend to hold certain typical risk preferences. Furthermore, religious beliefs are...
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The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … naturalized immigrants. We also take into account possible spillover effects of immigrants on criminal activities by Germans … instrumental variable approach that deals with the possibly endogenous allocation of immigrants and allows for causal …
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immigrants and natives, and start by presenting reduced-form econometric evidence for the hypothesis that immigrants, once they … population. Unobserved moving costs for immigrants are estimated to be only about 37% of this same cost for natives. The findings …
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This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … immigrants are differences in marital behavior as well as language abilities, ethnic identification and religious distribution. A …. These indicators are also presented. All of these indicators are depicted in comparison between natives and immigrants …
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cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …
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