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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887005
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high-migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955680
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957600
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A Model of an Optimum Currency Area
Ricci, Luca Antonio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper develops a model of the circumstances under which it is beneficial to participate in a currency area. The proposed two-country monetary model of trade with nominal rigidities encompasses the real and monetary arguments suggested by the optimum currency area literature: correlation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083391
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants. Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216279
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Through which channels can remittances spur economic growth in MENA countries?
Mim, Sami Ben; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper studies the remittances' effect on economic growth. Using panel data techniques, the authors estimate several specifications to provide support of such relationship for MENA countries over the period 1980-2009. The findings provide new robust evidence on how remittances are used in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646511
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646606
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The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were close substitutes to the native West German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276115
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Interregionale Arbeitskräftewanderungen: theoretische Erklärungsansätze und empirischer Befund
Bode, Eckhardt; Zwing, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276360
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A Frictionless Model of Job Flows and the Beveridge Curve
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
The Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model is the workhorse of labor macro, but it has difficulty in simultaneously matching the cyclical behavior of job loss and vacancies when taken to the data. By completely ignoring frictions in job creation and focusing instead on firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511728