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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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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963809
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Occupational Choice across Generations
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
affects occupational choice, and that individuals with more education choose higher ranking jobs. The role of experience is … choice is more influenced by their mother's education and not by their fathers' occupation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963726
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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963750
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China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
year 1978 was the landmark for the foundation of the Chinese modern higher education system. Since then the number of … students enrolled in Chinese higher education institutions has increased dramatically; China is producing serious scholars and … a tremendous amount of scholarly output; more and more Chinese students seek higher education abroad; and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671252
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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461816
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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
-skilled. A central political objective for the future will not only be education policy but also the recruitment of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018681
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604529
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963624
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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