The belief that immigrants generate beneficial externalities in their host countries, specifically in the form of an increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in Heaven's Door (1999, p. 97) as having no empirical...

Die Entstehung dieses Arbeitspapiers ist angestoßen worden durch die Veröffentlichung des Beitrags "Hire and Fire. Ist der amerikanische Arbeitsmarkt ein Vorbild für Deutschland?" von Wolfgang Streeck. Hierin unternimmt Streeck den Versuch einer Generalabrechnung mit der deutschen...

One of the arguments increasingly made to support large minimum wage increases is that they decrease wage or earnings gaps for minorities or women (e.g., Derenoncourt and Montialoux, 2021). The argument is often made with particular reference to higher tipped minimum wages for restaurant...