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paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective. …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects several million more as a consequence of the demise of socialism. This paper analyses the economic performance of ethnic German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native...
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In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark … and a number of immigrant groups correcting for sample selection and individual specific effects. Based on a Danish panel …
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This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take into account different probabilities of entering the...
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger …
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Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the 50 years since World War II, to the extent that it now has one of the highest share of foreigners in population among OECD countries. This paper analyses Switzerland’s experience of migration, centring on two main issues:...
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correlated with obesity. Our main result is that, even after controlling for income levels and other factors, we find that high … 'price-sensitivity' for food products is associated with high obesity rates. We find that a woman who stated that prices were … that price was 'very important.' This suggests that the price effect is not trivial and obesity is a problem that is not …
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We study the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity. Using data that tracks individuals over time, we find no … evidence that urban sprawl causes obesity. We show that previous findings of a positive relationship most likely reflect a … neighbourhoods. Our results indicate that current interest in changing the built environment to counter the rise in obesity is …
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