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Big data and unemployment analysis
Bratu, Mihaela; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
Internet or "big" data are increasingly measuring the relevant activities of individuals, households, firms and public … experimental settings. Therefore, internet data are extremely useful to study a wide variety of human resource issues including … unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114391
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271156
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272025
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Ethnosizing Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272280
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272313
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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership
Constant, Amelie F.; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272314
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Ethnosizing immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272325
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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership
Constant, Amelie F.; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272337
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916430