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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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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self … the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among …
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directly to employment-familial aspects such as civil status, the partner's employment status, and number of children …
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labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a reduced range of active labor market policy schemes focusing on …
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This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …
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