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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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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation : is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?

Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - 2013

Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...

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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

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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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania

Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014

"home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly …

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Peer effects in language training for migrants

Sprietsma, Maresa; Pfeil, Lisa - 2015

We investigate the effect of peer group composition on language improvement in language classes for adults. Using unique survey data of migrants participating in an intensive language course in Germany, we find that the age and skill composition of groups affect skill acquisition as assessed by...

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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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Factor mobility and fiscal policy in the EU : policy issues and analytical approaches

Wildasin, David E. - 1999

fiscal competition. It then describes recent trends in international migration and capital movements. The evidence suggests …

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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement

Fries, Jan - 2014

This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...

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How selective are real wage cuts? : a micro-analysis using linked employer-employee data

Hirsch, Boris; Zwick, Thomas - 2013

cuts increase wage dispersion among peers rather than narrowing it. Notably, the same selectivity pattern shows up when …

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Local governments in the wake of demographic change : efficiency and economies of scale in German municipalities

Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2007

German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments’ vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...

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