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

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

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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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

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

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

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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Agglomeration economies in Great Britain

Özgüzel, Cem - 2020

This paper estimates agglomeration economies in Great Britain. The analysis employs a definition of urban areas as functional economic units developed by the OECD in collaboration with the European Union to investigate the size and sources of productivity disparities across urban areas. It uses...

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Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands : sorting into cities for better careers

Kok, Suzanne - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 2, pp. 1-36

Matches between workers and jobs are better in thick labour markets than in thin ones. This paper measures match quality by the gap between worker skills and their job tasks in the Netherlands. The smaller the gap, the better the match between skills and tasks. The measured gaps are 14 percent...

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The Geography of Job Tasks

Atalay, Enghin; Sotelo, Sebastian; Tannenbaum, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We introduce new measurement tools to understand the sources of earnings differences across space. Based on the natural language employers use in job vacancy text, we develop granular measures of job tasks and of worker specialization. We find that jobs in larger commuting zones involve greater...

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Labour market integration, human capital formation, and mobility

Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014

In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion effects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income...

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Labour Market Integration, Human Capital Formation, and Mobility

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion eects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce 'real' income in...

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The selection of high-skilled migrants

Parey, Matthias; Ruhose, Jens; Waldinger, Fabian; Netz, … - 2015

-skilled individuals when credit constraints and other migration barriers are unlikely to be binding. …

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Urbanisation and Migration Externalities in China

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013

We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a … external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in …’wages. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …

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