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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...

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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers …

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Regional Origins of Employment Volatility : Evidence from German States

Buch, Claudia M. - 2008

increase uncertainty through a higher volatility of employment. We use regional data from Germany to test whether openness for … trade has an impact on volatility. We find a downward trend in the unconditional volatility of employment, which has been … employment, measuring idiosyncratic developments across states, in contrast, has remained fairly unchanged. In contrast to …

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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet

Lutgen, Vanessa - 2015

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are free to move and wages are bargained over. Job-seekers choose between searching locally or searching in both regions. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter...

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Strategic Housing Policy, Migration and Sorting Around Population Thresholds

De Witte, K. - 2016

We analyse whether, when and how local office-holders respond to the personal, economic incentives embedded in exogenously imposed population thresholds leading to an increased number and/or remuneration of local office-holders. Using data from all 589 Belgian municipalities over the period...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career. Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Albanese, Andrea - 2016

In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement … (possibly selective) pathways to early retirement. We find that participation in the scheme initially prolongs employment, as …

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R. - 2017

States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 …

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