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include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …
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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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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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disparities. Registered migration rates have declined dramatically since the last years of Soviet era, yet they are high by … both on gross and net migration flows. Age and education effects are consistent with predictions of the human capital model … of migration. Unemployed persons, as well as commuters between regions, are significantly more likely to become migrants …
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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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Based on the affirmation that internal migration in Chile has become increasingly less important as an equalizing … migration decision (based on observed and unobserved characteristics). This study finds that the productivity differential is … the leading factor explaining migration. However, migration not only depends on individual characteristics, but strongly …
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after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600753
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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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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