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How different are immigrants? : A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement

Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … the USA. The first step of the analysis shows how far countries differ regarding immigrants' educational disadvantage. In …

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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process

Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...

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Surprise, surprise - measuring firm-level investment innovations

Bachmann, Ruediger; Elstner, Steffen; Hristov, Atanas - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 83 (2017), pp. 107-148

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Information or regulation : what Is driving the international activities of commercial banks?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...

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Real estate prices and corporate investment : theory and evidence of heterogeneous effects across firms

Fougère, Denis; Lecat, Rémy; Ray, Simon - 2018

In this paper, we investigate the effect of real estate prices on productive investment. We build a simple theoretical … framework of firms' investment with credit rationing and real estate collateral. We show that real estate prices affect firms … identification of the second channel allows for heterogeneous effects of real estate prices on investment across firms. We test our …

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Understanding the technology of computer technology diffusion : explaining computer adoption patterns and implications for the wage structure

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008

We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...

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What drives aggregate investment? : evidence from German survey data

Bachmann, Ruediger; Zorn, Peter - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 115 (2020), pp. 1-28

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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Why do firms recruit internationally? : results from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...

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