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The German labour market reforms in a European context: A DSGE analysis

Busl, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013

While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...

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The German labour market reforms in a European context: A DSGE analysis

Busl, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration

Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - 2004

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national … empirical results imply that for students with a migration background a key for catching up is the language spoken at home. We …

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EU enlargement and immigration

Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …

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Public Universities, Tuition and Competition: A Tiebout Model

Schwager, Robert - 2007

A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues,...

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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008

This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - 2002

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

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Remittances and public finances: Evidence from oil-price shocks

Asatryan, Zareh; Bittschi, Benjamin; Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2016

We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find that remittances have a large positive...

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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …

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From participants to citizens? Democratic voting rights and naturalization behavior

Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Bevelander, Pieter - 2020

We study the causal effect of the possibility to vote on foreigners propensity to naturalize, a key indicator of successful integration. Based on Swedish administrative data and an institutional setting producing a quasi-random assignment of the eligibility to vote, we find that the overall...

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