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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : what drives the self-selection of internal migrants in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011 - Preliminary Version: March 3, 2011

This paper examines the determinants of internal migration in a context where wages tend to be rather inflexible at a regional scale so that regional labor demand shocks have a prolonged impact on employment rates. Regional income differentials, then, reflect both regional pay and employment...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012

Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Kapiteln, die Erkenntnisse zur Integration von Migranten und den Auswirkungen … von Migranten auf Einheimische im Zielland liefern. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund, dass der Anteil an Migranten in der … Migrationshintergrund hemmt. Kapitel 4 und 5 befassen sich mit den Effekten von Migranten auf die Gesellschaft des Ziellandes. Einmal wird …

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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...

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A cohort integration analysis of work and education participation among internal mobile and non-mobile immigrants by reason for immigration

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2016

The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants' participation versus non-participation in the regional labour markets and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees, labor-, family- and education-immigrants and Nordic...

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Not always for richer or poorer : the effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution

Brown, Heather W.; Battu, Harminder; Costa-Gomes, Miguel A. - 2013

There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...

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Forced migration and the educational attainment of second and third generations

Kramer, Anica - 2019

This paper studies the effects of forced migration on the educational attainment of second and third generations. Exploring the re-allocation of 8 million expellees to West Germany after World War II using German panel data, the results show that the educational outcomes of the second generation...

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Spatial distribution dynamics

Gerolimetto, Margherita; Magrini, Stefano - 2015 - Very preliminary version, this version: June 12, 2015

It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the literature adopting the regression approach is now fully aware that neglecting this feature may lead to inaccurate results and has therefore suggested a number of statistical tools...

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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?

Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012

The population growth of cities in industrialized countries is characterized by striking disparities. While some cities experience a kind of resurgence in recent years others suffer from an ongoing depopulation. In this context an important issue refers to the question whether labour market...

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