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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 … Opinion Survey 2007 we depict main trends in the integration situation of ethnic minorities in Europe in a comparative manner …

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A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and …

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An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

; the inner nature of discrimination, negative attitudes and internal barriers; as well as the ethnic minorities' desires … that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and … behavior towards ethnic minorities as well as institutional barriers, such as citizenship or legal restrictions, seem to …

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Circular Movements and Time away from the Host Country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years being away from the host country using count data models....

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Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years away from the Host Country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants...

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Post 9-11 U.S. Muslim Labor Market Outcomes

Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Using a difference-in-differences framework and micro data from the Current Population Survey-Merged Outgoing Rotation Group Files (1999 to 2004), this paper estimates the impact that the 9-11 terrorists attacks had on the U.S. labor market outcomes of individuals with nativity profiles similar...

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The Impact of 9/11 and the London Bombings on the Employment and Earnings of U.K. Muslims

Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper estimates the impact that Britain's July 2005 bombings had on the labor market outcomes of UK residents who are either Muslim by religious affiliation or whose nativity profiles are similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point...

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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious … outcomes. In particular, ethnic minorities appear to face disproportional difficulties in finding a job. Although experience in … the host country improves the status of immigrant minorities, we do not find any clear assimilation of further immigrant …

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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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