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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734424

Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit...

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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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Labor Market Reforms and the Great Recession

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. This paper assesses the role of the labor market reforms for the latter development. Against this background, general lessons are drawn from the German...

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The Post-Unification German Labor Market

Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

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