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Success in the University Admission Process in Germany: Regional Provenance Matters

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

School education in Germany is under the responsibility of the federal states and as a consequence average grades differ widely across regions. Since school leavers apply nationwide for admission to university, regional provenance may thus matter a lot for the success probability in the...

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Tax Competition and the Choice of Tax Structure in a Majority Voting Model

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This note studies the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model with tax competition. Regions may tax mobile capital or immobile labor. Individuals differ with respect to their relative endowments of labor and capital. Even though a lump sum tax is available, the equilibrium capital tax...

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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown. Analysis using unique micro data collected prior to...

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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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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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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

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

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European "blue card" initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …

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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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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...

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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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