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We investigate how previous generations of migrants and their children integrated into Austrian society, as measured by … their wealth ownership. Using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), we document a positive average … migrant wealth gap between migrant and native households. However, the raw gap is almost negligible for second generation …
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remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of … individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks …. Using the wealth component of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that, on average, members of western …
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Immigrants are typically found to have less wealth and hold it in different forms than the native born. These … wealth differences between immigrants and the New Zealand-born. Differences in the allocation of portfolios between housing … and other forms of wealth are described. Unconditional and conditional wealth quantiles are examined using parametric …
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Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a "non-qualified only" policy to one of almost free movement … of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes of children of first-generation migrants …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...
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