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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013

include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary

This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers … bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use …

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany ; conference paper

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2013

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany ; conference paper

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector specific factors model, in which...

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Do immigrants take or create residents jobs? : quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland ; conference paper

Basten, Christoph; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013 - This version: May 2013

immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …

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The European crisis and migration to Germany : expectations and the diversion of migration flows ; conference paper

Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2013

The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the … challenge by controlling for multilateral resistance to migration, and the second one by incorporating 10-year bond yields as an … explanatory variable in a study of European bilateral migration flows to Germany between 2006 and 2012. We show that, while …

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