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Fertility effects of college education: Evidence from the German educational expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017
We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers...
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Immigration and Structural Change – Evidence from Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …
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The impact of cultural diversity on the German housing market
Bayar, Mehmet - 2016
This paper documents a positive impact of cultural diversity and cultural similarity on rental prices of the German districts for the years between 2004 and 2013. On the one hand, an increase of the Herfindahl index as a measure for cultural diversity of 0.1 would increase rents by over 12...
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269990
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Immigration and Structural Change – Evidence from Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output … zwischen den Sektoren angleicht, sagt voraus, dass Immigration den Output pro Kopf erhöht indem sie den hoch-produktiven Sektor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287335
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Culture and the labor supply of female immigrants
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2022
This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471964
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Natives' gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2023
Using data from the European Social Survey 2002-2020 covering immigrants in 25 European countries, this paper investigates the role of natives' gender norms in the labor market integration of female immigrants. To analyze the role of natives' gender norms, we exploit intertemporal,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420759
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518188
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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023
other forms of employment and no impact on average pay at the firm. Yet, access to H-2B workers raises firms' annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420665
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Gender Differences in the Intergenerational Earnings Mobility of Second-Generation Migrants
Flake, Regina - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
This study analyzes gender diff erences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in Germany. The analysis takes into account potential infl uences like assortative mating in the form of ethnic marriages and the parental integration measured by parents’ years...
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