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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Schurer, Stefani - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants – Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

The fl ight 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 off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...

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People‘s Attitudes and the Eff ects of Immigration to Australia

Sinning, Mathias; Vorell, Matthias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

This paper compares the eff ects of immigration fl ows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion … unemployment rates, median incomes, or crime levels. This result is in line with the economic eff ects that people typically expect … but does not confi rm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that …

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Computational Economic Modeling of Migration

Klabunde, Anna - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

In this paper an agent-based model of endogenously evolving migrant networks is developed to identify the determinants of migration and return decisions. Individuals are connected by links, the strength of which declines over time and distance. Methodologically, this paper combines...

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Estonia and the European Monetary Union – Are there Benefi ts from a “Late” Accession?

Baas, Timo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

The failure of the Maastricht criteria delayed Estonia’s accession to the European Monetary Union (EMU) until January 2011. During this time, trading shares with Eurozone countries declined, raising questions about the optimal accession time. In this study, the macroeconomic eff ects of...

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The Effect of Ethnic Clustering on Migrant Integration in Germany

Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants could be important for integration policies, especially in the light of rising immigration and a skilled worker shortage. Yet, both economic theory and empirical research for...

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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics

Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...

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Immigration and Structural Change – Evidence from Post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 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...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 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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The Demand for High-skilled Worker and Immigration Policy

Bauer, Thomas; Kunze, Astrid - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2003

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

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