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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …-war reconstruction seem to be valid explanations for these patterns of inequality. A series of alternative specifications confirms the …
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-skilled. A central political objective for the future will not only be education policy but also the recruitment of high …-skilled workers from international and European labor markets. Additional skilled labor increases well-being and reduces inequality …
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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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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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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...
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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...
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and the unimportance of a wide range of premigration characteristics like religion and education at home. …
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acknowledged as the single most important integration barrier; low education and self-confidence as well as cultural differences …
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and other Christians assimilate the best. Immigrants with college or higher education in the home country integrate very … well, but do not assimilate. Having some schooling is worse than no education for integration or assimilation. The …
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