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Gov-arrrgh-nance: Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers
De Groot, Olaf J.; Shortland, Anja - 2010
a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285742
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International Migration to Germany : Estimation of a Time-Series Model and Inference in Panel Cointegration.
Trübswetter, Parvati; Siliverstovs, Boriss; Brücker, … - 2003
In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income differential, employment rates, and migrations stocks as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260713
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The Dynamics of Repeat Migration : A Markov Chain Analysis
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F. - 2003
for Germany, the largest European immigration country, shows that more than 60% of the migrants are indeed repeat migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272273
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Circular Movements And Time Away From The Host Country
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F. - 2003
Germany, the largest European immigration country, are indeed repeat migrants. The findings indicate that immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272274
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Circular migration: counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272312
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Occuptational choice across generations
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272271
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
Hunt, Jennifer - 2003
assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260663
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? Evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2008
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324266
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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
Arbeitsmarkt und die Gesellschaft insgesamt. Daher muss das deutsche Bildungssystem (einschließlich Kindergarten, Vorschule, Schule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260753
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Structural unemployment and the output gap in Germany : evidence from an SVAR analysis within a hysteresis framework
Fritsche, Ulrich; Logeay, Camille - 2002
The German unemployment rate shows strong signs if non-stationarity over the course of the previous decades. This is in line with an insider-outsider model under full hysteresis. We applied a "theory-guided view" to the data using the structural VAR model as developed by Balmaseda, Dolado and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260640