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| Title: | | Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans  |
| Authors: | | Hornig, Stephan O. Rottmann, Horst Wapler, Rüdiger |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2683 |
| Abstract: | | This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and non-migrants in the German labour market. Starting from the theoretical result that only a separating equilibrium can exist, we find substantial empirical differences between Ethnic and Native Germans with the same formal education level. This empirical analysis is done with a completely new dataset based on administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency. |
| Subjects: | | sorting theory human-capital theory returns to education migration |
| JEL: | | J24 J31 F22 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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