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    Social Status and Public Expectations: Self-Selection of High-Skilled Migrants

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    We analyze public expectations about migrants' provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty's (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the migrants' choice about their country of destination. As a result, we relate Germany's attested low attractiveness for high-skilled immigrants to its society's attitudes towards immigrants. We develop measures to increase Germany's attractiveness in the competition about talents

    Social status and public expectations: Self-selection of high-skilled migrants

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    We analyze public expectations about migrants' provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty's (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the migrants' choice about their country of destination. As a result, we relate Germany's attested low attractiveness for high-skilled immigrants to its society's attitudes towards immigrants. We develop measures to increase Germany's attractiveness in the competition about talents.Wir analysieren Erwartungen der Öffentlichkeit im Einwanderungsland an den Arbeitseinsatz von Immigranten als treibende Kraft für die Selbstselektion hochqualifizierter Immigranten. Dazu übernehmen und erweitern wir das theoretische Modell zum sozialen Status von Piketty (1998) und zeigen, dass länderspezifische öffentliche Erwartungen die Entscheidung von Immigranten, in welches Land sie migrieren, beeinflussen. Im Ergebnis verknüpfen wir Deutschlands attestierte geringe Attraktivität für hochqualifizierte Immigranten mit der Einstellung der Öffentlichkeit gegenüber Immigranten. Wir zeigen Maßnahmen auf, anhand derer Deutschland seine Attraktivität im internationalen Wettbewerb um Talente steigern kann

    Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration

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    This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country's population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the effect of public beliefs in social mobility on the share of high-skilled immigrants (stocks) in the main OECD immigration countries. The empirical results suggest that countries with higher "American Dream" beliefs, i.e., with stronger beliefs that climbing the social ladder can be realized by own hard work, attracted a higher proportion of high-skilled immigrants over time. This pattern even holds against the fact that existing social mobility in these countries is relatively lower.Das Diskussionspapier untersucht, wie der Glaube der Bevölkerung im Einwanderungsland an soziale Mobilität die Wahl des Einwanderungslands von hochqualifizierten Migranten beeinflusst. Wir kombinieren Makrodaten aus dem IAB brain drain Datensatz mit Bevölkerungsumfragedaten aus dem ISSP im Zeitraum 1987-2010, um den Effekt des Glaubens an soziale Mobilität auf den Anteil der hochqualifizierten Migranten (stocks) in den wesentlichen OECD Einwanderungsländern zu messen. Die empirischen Ergebnisse zeigen, daß Länder mit einem stärkeren Glauben an den "Amerikanischen Traum", d.h mit einem stärkeren Glauben, daß sozialer Aufstieg durch eigene harte Arbeit erzielt werden kann, einen höheren Anteil an hochqualifizierten Migranten attrahieren. Dieses Ergebnis gilt selbst angesichts der Tatsache, daß die tatsächliche soziale Mobilität in diesen Ländern relativ geringer ist

    German emigration via Bremen in the Weimar Republic (1920-1932)

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    This paper analyzes the oversea emigration of German passengers via the port of Bremen in the period of theWeimar Republic (1920-1932). We use a novel micro-dataset of digitalized passengers lists including about 181,000 emigrants as an estimation of the outflow of Germans from the German Reich. The descriptive analysis shows that the dataset is overall representative compared to official statistics except for the years 1924 and 1929 in which the data loss is huge. Furthermore, we deduce the skill level of the emigrating working population on the basis of information about occupations in the dataset. We find that male migrants had higher skills than female migrants and that South American countries attracted a relatively better skill distribution than the United States although the latter represented the main destination country for emigrants of any skill level in absolute numbers
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