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overall extent, of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Focussing on foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada as illustrative … market institutions benefit low-skill migrants, but generate less earnings assimilation. Such assimilation in Canada is …
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Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
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The German secondary school stream-system has three levels: minimum (Hauptschule), general (Realschule), and university-entry (Gymnasium). Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we examine determinants of school attainment of German and foreign pupils in West Germany 1984-1993 using an...
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East and West Germany. For many years, in particular from the late fifties through the mid-seventies, fertility patterns in …-seventies, total fertility in the East increased relative to the West. Subsequently, fertility decreased during the final years of the … GDR and then plummeted shortly after Unification. Today the popular expectation is that East German fertility will rebound …
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We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in...
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