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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963624
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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896186
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068804
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The Impact of International Migration and Remittances on the Labor-Supply Behavior of Those Left behind: Evidence from Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration ("M") effect and the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578346
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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963915
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Bringing Home the Money: Xenophobia and Remittances: The Case of Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
. Second, income and gender has no impact on the probability to remit. Third, the acquisition of German citizenship is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069097
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The Effects of Labor Supply Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Mansour, Hani - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568244
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Modeling for Determinants of Human Trafficking
Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
a low level of gender equality and development may have constraining effects on human trafficking outflows, contrary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556269
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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility?: Evidence from a Structural Model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461827
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The Impact of Children on Female Earnings in Britain
Viitanen, Tarja K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range … differential reduces to 16%-18% instrumenting participation and fertility, however, using the estimates obtained from the double …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963930