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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18146| Title: | Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? : Repeat, Return and Same-Employer |
| Keywords: | ddc:330 Binnenwanderung Regionale Arbeitsmobilität Qualifikation Migrationstheorie Schätzung Deutschland |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2000. I highlight the prevalence and distinctive characteristics of migrants who do not change employers. Same-employer migrants represent 25% of all migrants, and have higher education and pre-move wages than non-migrants. Conditional on age, same-employer migrants are therefore more skilled than non-migrants. By contrast, although other migrants have higher education than non-migrants, they do not have higher pre-move wages. Furthermore, they have in their ranks disproportionate numbers of the non-employed, unemployed and recently laid off. It therefore seems inappropriate to characterize them as more skilled than nonmigrants. The results for same-employer migrants indicate that skilled workers have a low-cost migration avenue that has not been considered in the previous literature. I also analyze the relation between repeat and return migration and distinguish between short and long-distance migration. I confirm that long-distance migrants are more skilled than short-distance migrants, as predicted by theory, and I show that return migrants are a mix of successes and failures. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18146 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18146 ppn:387735011 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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