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This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
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Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of … evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come into existence at the same moment: when the first child is born. Second …, wage compensation for commuting is lower for women after the birth compared to men: about 3 − 4 percentage points of the …
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Over the past decades, commuting has become more and more important as a means for labor market adjustment. This is … reflected in increasing commuter shares and distances. Nevertheless, identifying the determinants of commuting distances is by … no means straightforward due to complex job and housing decisions. We argue that commuting results from a two …
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This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between … husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they … differences in commuting patterns. A conditional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition indicates that short commutes are strongly …
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depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures …. Diese unterstellt Ausstattungsunterschiede oder eine Abwertung von Humankapital bei Migration. Trotzdem bleibt auch nach …
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to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA...
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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the wage...
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