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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - 2008

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the …

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The Optimal Size for a Minority

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2001

We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...

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Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our model is that we take into account the impact of migration...

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Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico

Mckenzie, David; Rapoport, Hillel - 2004

International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower...

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Ethnic Discrimination and the Migration of Skilled Labor

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001

and whether to migrate in their adulthood. Assuming a rent-extraction basis for discrimination, we first endogenize ethnic … discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … on the minority. Moreover, the optimal discrimination rate (from the majority’s perspective) is shown to be such that …

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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply: The German experience

Caliendo, Marco - 2009

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

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Side effects of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020

instantaneous features of participation such as, perhaps, the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine. Unemployment benefits …

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