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A new dataset on export sophistication reveals that in many countries the importance of modern services, and the …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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The large influx of migrants to Nordic countries in recent years is challenging the adoptability of Nordic labor market … better facilitates the integration of migrants into employment. In particular, greater wage flexibility at the firm level and …
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This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates … how successfully migrants integrate in 13 European countries by applying a unified framework to analyze a rich micro … impact of education acquired domestically and abroad in determining migrants' subsequent employment prospects. The analysis …
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With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries …
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German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate. Our analysis shows that a large part of the decline in unemployment was structural. Micro-founded Phillips curves fit the German data rather...
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. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive … than migrants to other countries-even after accounting for talent during one's teenage years. Third, financing costs are a …
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Is rapid economic growth experienced by the East African Community during the past decade built on solid foundations? To gain some clues, we use a variety of newly-collected and existing data sources to analyze the structural transformation of output and exports, as well as indicators of their...
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between 2000 and 2012. While export intensive companies have suffered lower profit growth with real exchange rate appreciation …
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