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Who Leaves and When?: Selective Outmigration of Immigrants from Germany
Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The paper provides new evidence on the outmigration of foreign-born immigrants. We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and employ penalised spline smoothing in the context of a Poisson-type Generalised Additive Mixed Model (GAMM), which enables us to incorporate bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575766
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Population Aging and Individual Attitudes toward Immigration: Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects
Calahorrano, Lena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social … typically found to be more averse to immigration. However, cross-sectional investigations may confound age with cohort effects …. This investigation uses the 1999-2008 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to separate the effect of age on immigration …
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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/10005069122
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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education
Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128988
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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants: Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?
Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896283
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The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits
Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596282
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Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Microeconometric Model for Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Which role do individual income prospects play in the decision to be an entrepreneur rather than an employee? In a model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017467
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Improvements and Future Challenges in the Field of Genetically Sensitive Sample Designs
Spinath, Frank M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
Understanding the sources of individual differences beyond social and economic effects has become a research area of growing interest in psychology, sociology, and economics. A quantitative genetic research design provides the necessary tools for this type of analysis. For a state-of-the-art...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018689
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Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities
Kneip, Alois; Merz, Monika; Storjohann, Lidia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows forworker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896261
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Leben außerhalb Deutschlands: eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Realisierung von Auslandsbefragungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Schupp, Jürgen; Siegel, Nico A.; Erlinghagen, Marcel; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
residence prior to immigration (former West / former East Germany). However, significant age and earning-specific selectivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017374