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Where do migrants from countries ridden by environmental conflict settle? : On the scale, selection and sorting of conflict-induced migration
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Schmid, Lena - 2019
Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i … conflict. In addition to (transport-related) migration costs, migration governance shapes the sorting pattern of migrants …. Immigration policies in destination countries impose further costs to migration or even prevent settlement. At the same time …
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Labour market entry of migrants in Germany: Does cultural diversity matter?
Haas, Anette; Damelang, Andreas - 2007
Der Beitrag analysiert den Arbeitsmarktzugang von jugendlichen Migranten in Deutschland nach Abschluss ihrer Lehrzeit. Dabei gilt das besondere Interesse der Auswirkung lokaler kultureller Verschiedenheit auf den erfolgreichen Start einer beruflichen Karriere. Der Fokus liegt auf einer...
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Migration und Integration: Deutschland als Einwanderungsland - "... denn ihr seid selbst Fremde in Ägypten gewesen"
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
selbstbewusster und unaufgeregter Umgang mit den Themen Migration und Integration angeregt, zu dem Deutschland leider bislang nicht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331457
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Zuwanderungen aus Mittel- und Osteuropa trotz Arbeitsmarktbarrieren deutlich gestiegen
Brenke, Karl; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 44, pp. 645-653
Für Arbeitskräfte aus den mittel- und osteuropäischen Beitrittsländern der Europäischen Union (EU) sind die Möglichkeiten, in Deutschland einer Beschäftigung nachzugehen, stark eingeschränkt. Dennoch kam es nach der EU-Osterweiterung von 2004 zu einem deutlichen Anstieg der Zuwanderungen...
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262784
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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262802
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464
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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - 2010
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating … human capital theory and a household production model of migration where migrants may be temporary by choice and not because …
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