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Wages of migrant and native employees in Germany : new light on an old issue

Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2019

The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...

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Can Urban Renewal Policies Reverse Neighborhood Ethnic Dynamics?

González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017

concentration of poverty and immigration. The control group comprises rejected projects and projects accepted towards the end of the …

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Retirement, Housing Mobility, Downsizing and Neighbourhood Quality – A Causal Investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Bergström, Lina - 2010

: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …

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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation? Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this activity are governed by a prisoner's dilemma "rule of...

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Can urban renewal policies reverse ethnic tipping points?

González Pampillon, Nicolas; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; … - 2015

Economist has traditionally been skeptical about the potential effects of place-based policies. Some authors (see, e.g., Overman and Nathan, 2013, and Kline and Moretti, 2014) argued that place-based policies are an imperfect solution to deal with social problems, for many reasons. First,...

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Do welfare dependent neighbors matter for individual welfare dependency?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dang, Rui - 2016

This paper investigates neighborhood peer effects on individual welfare using a combined IV and control function approach. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for the years 2007-2010 constructed by enriching the geo-referenced version of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) with...

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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...

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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities

Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019

Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...

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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities

Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019

Residential mobility rates in the United States have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999897