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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...

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Gender and immigration : double negative effects in the labor market outcomes of university graduates in Germany? ; conference paper

Bünstorf, Guido; Krabel, Stefan - 2014 - This version: February 2014

terms of gender and immigration status). Similar patterns are obtained for job satisfaction and the match quality of …

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany ; conference paper

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2013

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany ; conference paper

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …

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Do immigrants take or create residents jobs? : quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland ; conference paper

Basten, Christoph; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013 - This version: May 2013

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland …, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different … immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …

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The European crisis and migration to Germany : expectations and the diversion of migration flows ; conference paper

Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2013

The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...

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Welfare transitions before and after reforms of the German welfare system

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2013

We study state dependence in the German welfare system and compare transition patterns before and after recent reforms of the welfare system (Hartz Reforms). Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that welfare transitions have...

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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The employment effect of deregulating shopping hours : evidence from German retailing ; conference paper

Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2014

We provide difference-in-differences evidence from Germany on the effect of deregulating weekday shop opening hours on employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop...

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