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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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European social model strongly connects social cohesion and employment policies, fostering sustainable growth and integration …
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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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Does granting citizenship at birth help immigrant children to integrate in the host country's educational system and thus, to promote their educational success? Our identification strategy is based on a reform of the German naturalization law in 2000. We exploit this natural experiment and use a...
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This paper evaluates the effect of becoming citizen of the host-country at birth on educational outcomes of immigrant children in Germany. We exploit the introduction of birthright citizenship for newborn children in Germany starting on the 1st of January, 2000, to obtain...
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measurements as well as detailed employment information. We focus on plant closures and dismissals, which have been widely used as … do not find re-employment. Individuals who face changes in their non-cognitive skills following a job loss may find it … more difficult to re-enter employment, which may explain duration dependence of unemployment. …
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employment population, in a particular area. The analysis may reveal regional employment disparities, sometimes severe, between … Romania have certain particularities (features) in terms of employment, which makes some characteristics (demographic …, educational etc.) to impart significant influence on employment.This paper aims to highlight the features of the rural area, in …
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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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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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