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The Effect of Family Income during Childhood on Later-life Attainment: Evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not … greater for poor households compared to rich households, other things equal. The income effects are small for native …
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The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation
Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika; Baliki, Ghassan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …
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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined?: Evidence from British Immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
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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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963632
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963640
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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963670
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Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963709
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Ethnosizing Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963743