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Migration and wage-setting: reassessing the labor market effects of migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2009

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...

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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Jahn, Elke Jutta; Upward, Richard; Brücker, Herbert - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

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Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …

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Endogenous assimilation and immigrant adjustment in longitudinal data

Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel’s censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761864

The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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Internal Migration in Regions of Germany: A Panel Data Analysis

Parikh, Ashok; Leuvensteijn, Michiel Van - European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes … - 2002

The objectives of this paper are to examine the traditional determinants of interregional migration between regions of … we find that the relationship between regional wage differences and migration is non-linear. For white-collar workers the …

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