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Lerbs, Oliver; Teske, Markus - 2016

Individual sales prices and local vacancy rates in the housing market pose a natural analogy to the wage curve, a popular concept in labor economics that describes how individual wages decrease with higher local unemployment. While housing search and matching models and housing externalities...

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Heterogeneous returns to training an analysis with German data using local instrumental variables

Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor); Maier, Michael (contributor) - 2006

Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...

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Poor background or low returns? : why immigrant students in Germany perform so poorly in PISA

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005

Student performance of Germans and immigrants differed greatly in the 2000 PISA study. This paper analyses why the two groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production functions, using an extension study with imputed data. The difference in the test scores is...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...

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"Brain gain" on Wikipedia : immigrants return knowledge home

Slivko, Olga - 2018

Economic literature acknowledges the impact of immigration on cross-border patenting and scientific publications …. However, the role of immigration ows in the dissemination of knowledge in a broader sense is yet to be assessed. In this paper …, I estimate the effect of immigration on the facilitation of online knowledge reagrding destination countries in the …

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How efficient is the U.K. housing market?

Schindler, Felix - 2010

Extending the controversial findings from the relevant literature, the results from the quarterly transaction-based Nationwide indices from 1974 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the weak-form version of efficiency in the U.K. housing market. In addition to...

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Further evidence on the (in-) efficiency of the U.S. housing market

Schindler, Felix - 2010

Extending the controversial findings from relevant literature on testing the efficient market hypothesis for the U.S. housing market, the results from the monthly and quarterly transaction-based Case-Shiller indices from 1987 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the...

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Does immigration weaken natives’ support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

state ; immigration ; ethnic diversity ; Germany ; cluster-robust standard errors ; two-way clustering …

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … recommended for immigration. …

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EU enlargement and immigration

Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000

accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …

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