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This note analyzes income differences between foreigners and natives in Germany. Using social survey data (ALLBUS) for 2012, I use Mincer style quantile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate the size of the income differential. People not born in Germany, have an income lose...
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This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and … research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate level). We consider that Romanian universities need more ‘migration …
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This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to changes in … model of immigrants' joint migration duration and saving decisions and derive comparative static results regarding the … in ppp decreases the optimal migration duration. Moreover, optimal migration duration is elastic with respect to ppp. An …
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paper, I empirically analyze the propensity of US immigrants to return. To identify return migration, I use the method … second years, due to various causes including return migration. After eliminating all other causes of dropout, I estimate the …
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University of Timisoara, edited The Romanian Journal of European Studies - special issue on migration and mobility (Guest editor …: Mr. Martin GEIGER, Bonn University, Germany; contact: mg.migration@googlemail.com). For more information or to obtain a … Editorial; Martin Geiger . pages 7 - 8 Forms and Features of the Post-Enlargement Migration Space; Paolo Ruspini . pages 9 - 18 …
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In this paper I test the capital accumulation conjecture that is used to rationalize return migration decisions in the … context of immigrants in Germany and examine how labor market outcomes influence return migration decisions, with particular … attention to selection in these outcomes in return migration. I characterize the level and timing of return migration as well as …
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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation." In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
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The aim of this paper is to empirically test the negative selectivity hypothesis as an explanation of the lower educational achievements of Turkish immigrant pupils. We do this by comparing educational achievement Turkish immigrant pupils in various European countries with the educational...
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, which becomes a cause of international migration of the skilled from less developed countries (i.e. those with poorer access … developed countries to migration and the resultant accelerated brain drain increase the incentives for national governments to …
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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation." In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221459