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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment
Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less likely to invest in host country-specific human capital. Theoretically, we root our expectations in a strand of the immigrant human capital investment model combined with a basic...
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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017
This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598502
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Age diversity and innovation : do mixed teams of "old and experienced" and "young and restless" employees foster companies' innovativeness?
Hammermann, Andrea; Niendorf, Matthias; Schmidt, Jörg - 2019
). We find that a rise in the average age of a company's workforce has a negative impact on innovation, but age diversity …-specific knowledge gained during employment within a company. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984119
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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003913052
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Peer effects identified through social networks : evidence from Uruguayan schools
Melo, Gioia de - 2014
This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing country. It provides evidence on peer effects in standardized tests by exploiting a unique data set on social networks in Uruguayan primary schools. The identification method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370135
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Innovation and location in German knowledge intensive business service firms
Brunow, Stephan; Hammer-Langrock, Andrea; McCann, Philip - 2017
and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …
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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East to West Germany after German reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare...
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544273
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Does personality matter? : the impact of the Big Five on the migrant and gender wage gaps
Brenzel, Hanna; Laible, Marie-Christine - 2016
We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps in Germany and we provide first evidence for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523423
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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants
Giesecke, Matthias; Schuß, Eric - 2019
We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065124