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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010
rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270067
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The effects of early childhood intervention on child development and early skill formation. Evidence from a randomized experiment.
Sandner, Malte - 2012
This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children in home visited families perform significantly better than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310102
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Fertility Effects of College Education: Evidence from the German Educational Expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel; Westphal, Matthias - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892129
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Migropolis: migration networks and formation of ethnic clusters in cities
Coniglio, Nicola Daniele - 2004
dynamics. Keywords: Consumption externalities, immigration, ethnic cluster, ethnic goods. JEL classification: F22, J15, J61. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318803
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332486
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Heterogeneous Firms and Substitution by Tasks: the Productivity Effect of Migrants
Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - 2012
Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340878
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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2010
This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage … immigration while foreigners tend to lose: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force through immigration increases native …
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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014
The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU … their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a … clear male dominance after 2005, mostly due to increased labour immigration. The immigration has changed from a dominance of …
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Spatial Distribution Dynamics
Magrini, Stefano; Gerolimetto, Margherita - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400586
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The dynamics of welfare entry and exit among natives and immigrants
Wunder, Christoph; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2011
logit models, we calculate transition matrices between three mutually exclusive labor market states (inactivity, employment … prospects: they have the lowest employment stability, the highest persistence in welfare participation, the highest welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306205