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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012
and 2000 show significant differences in the assimilation processes between nationalities. We examine the sources of wage … assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … percent in 2008. According to the decomposition results this wage assimilation of 10 percentage points can almost completely …
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Legal status and political representation : the 1986 IRCA and Hispanic public officials
Sabet, Navid - 2020 - This Version: February 18, 2020
What factors lead underrepresented groups to gain more political representation? I digitize a novel source of data that contains records of Hispanics elected to public office from the local to the federal level from 1984 to 1994 and exploit variation in legal status arising from the 1986...
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Occupational choice of migrants : does NEG tell something new?
Ivanova, Vera; Ushchev, Philip; Vakhitova, Hanna - 2015 - Very preliminary
We consider an empirical model in which individuals choose jointly their destination country and occupational choice. We plan to estimate this model using Ukrainian micro-data. The main results (to be yet obtained) will shed light on joint determinants of workers' migration decisions and their...
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Social mobility : is there an advantage in being English in Scotland? : Paper for the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International "Sustaina...
Ham, Maarten van; Findlay, Allan M.; Manley, David; … - 2010
A number of powerful forces have produced uneven opportunities for occupational advancement in Scotland. Edinburgh as capital of a devolved nation, hub for financial service activities and regional head office location for many public sector bodies boasts many of the characteristics that one...
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City of God redux : inequality, migration, and violent crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000
Freire, Tiago - 2015
There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some previous studies suggest that these results hold in the short term only. This could result from measurement error in income inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement...
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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015
We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...
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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava
Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 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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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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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014
The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by their reason of immigration. The...
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 1-8
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