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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2007

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

-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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Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of declines

Bluhm, Richard; Thomsson, Kaj - 2015

This paper analyzes the duration of large economic declines and provides a theory of delayed recovery. First, we develop a formal political economy model that illustrates a simple mechanism of how weak constraints on the political executive can lead to longer declines in ethnically heterogeneous...

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The labor market consequences of political imprisonment in the former GDR

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2015

Barely any quantitative research has been devoted yet to the labor market consequences of incarceration for political offenses, which seems particularly unfortunate against the background of Europe's history of state persecution in the 20th century. Drawing on the example of the former German...

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EU referenda in the Baltics: understanding the results at the regional level

Hazans, Mihails - 2004

The papers analyses regional differences in EU referenda results in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In each of the three countries, other things being equal, high income regions were significantly more pro-European than low-income ones, while regions with a high share of ethnic minorities were...

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Migropolis: migration networks and formation of ethnic clusters in cities

Coniglio, Nicola Daniele - 2004

In this paper we extend previous models of migration networks and ethnic cluster formation by considering migration as an ethnic-community wide phenomena where established migrants strategically provide support to newcomers. The incentive to provide support is associated with positive...

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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany: Are East Europeans Worse Off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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Regional distribution of discrimination forms in the labor market in Romania

Hrisanta, Dobre Mihaela; Dorel, Ailenei; Amalia, Cristescu - 2011

A highly segmented labor market usually favors a mismatch between supply and demand, significantly limiting the functional flexibility and the resilience of this market to macroeconomic shocks. From this perspective, such a market hampers the transition of an EU member to the euro zone,...

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Heterogeneous Firms and Substitution by Tasks: the Productivity Effect of Migrants

Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - 2012

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new topic is to focus on the firm level by estimating...

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Migration and work: the cohesive role of vocational training policies

Ragazzi, Elena; Sella, Lisa - 2013

Migration and work are truly connected notions, both because one major cause of migration is the search of better working conditions, and because work is a fundamental vehicle of social cohesion, especially for the migrants. Hence, the European social model strongly connects social cohesion and...

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Downward drifting Sticky Floors? - Evidence on the Development of Wage Inequality Among Foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

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