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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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dynamics. Keywords: Consumption externalities, immigration, ethnic cluster, ethnic goods. JEL classification: F22, J15, J61. …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at …
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rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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Research on educational disadvantages of second-generation immigrants largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS Extension, we provide evidence that second-generation immigrants face an additional disadvantage when tracked into different...
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The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU … their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a … clear male dominance after 2005, mostly due to increased labour immigration. The immigration has changed from a dominance of …
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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' demanded income tax schedule, information about immigration has a … response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to …
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Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
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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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In this paper, we analyse the wage differentials between employees of German and Non-German nationality using linked employer-employee data (LIAB) for the period 1996 to 2007. By focussing on the establishment level, we explicitly consider the heterogeneity of wage setting processes within...
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