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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Human Trafficking, a Shadow of Migration: Evidence from Germany

Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany during … source country, have a causal linkage with the illicit, exploitative form of migration - human trafficking - from that …

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...

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Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …

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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …

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Labor Markets and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Tajikistan

Kröger, Antje; Meier, Kristina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

also find that labor migration (predominantly to Russia) could be a mitigation strategy during the crisis. …

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off?: A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

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The Impact of International Migration and Remittances on the Labor-Supply Behavior of Those Left behind: Evidence from Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours … between a 'pure' migration ("M") effect and the joint effect of migration and remittance income ("MR") and evaluate these …

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