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questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about …
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …
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children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …
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to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask … between the responses of parents and their children. Exploring heterogeneity in the strength of transmission, we find that … gender of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly …
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parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …
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The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models itsdeterminants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economicperformance...
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This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...
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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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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...
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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