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and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees … refugees, family-immigrants and immigrants with unspecified reason for immigration, while education- and labor-immigrants and … "activity statuses" than refugees, family-immigrants and immigrants with unspecified reason for immigration. The main trend is …
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its in-migrants. A higher employment inequality in Eastern as compared to Western Germany may, thus, be the missing link …, then, reflect both regional pay and employment differentials. In such a context, migrants tend to move to regions that best … to explain the fact that East-West migrants tend to be rather unskilled. …
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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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In the process of European integration, regions close to a border are especially affected by labour market liberalisation. Using data from the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and the employment register (BeH) for the period before and after the opening of the border (1980-2001) I shed light on...
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Human resources is one of the main assets of the regional innovation systems. The development and accumulation of human resources is a crucial prerequisite to keep regional R&I industries highly performing and internationally competitive. Yet, regional policies to attract international research...
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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 … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an …
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This paper uses panel data on migration flows between municipalities in Norway from 2000-2008. The relatively new method of fixed effects vector decomposition (fevd) is used to estimate parameters for time-invariant spatial structure variables as well as for labour market factors such as...
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Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...
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In the 1990s polytechnic education reform took place in Finland, which gradually expanded higher education to all Finnish regions; the polytechnics constituted a new non-university sector in higher education. This reform is used to study the causal effect of education on the inter-regional...
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which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long …-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct geographical settlement patterns of European migrants according to national … identify where migrants from different nationalities settled and then regresses these patterns on current levels of economic …
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