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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective

Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...

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Convergence or Divergence?: Immigrant Wage Assimilation Patterns in Germany

Zibrowius, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

Using a rich panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany as an example of a key European destination country. This study contributes to the literature by performing separate estimations by skill groups. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants'...

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Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany

Sinning, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper examines the relative wealth position and the portfolio choices of immigrants in Germany. The empirical findings reveal significant differences in overall wealth and various wealth components between German natives and immigrants. Differences in real estate constitute the major part...

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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...

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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...

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Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany

Piracha, Matloob; Zhu, Yu - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it is shown that, although immigrants have lower levels of savings and are … less likely to have regular savings than natives, the gap is significantly narrowed once we take loan repayments and …

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Eine ökonometrische Analyse der Liquiditätsbeschränkung deutscher Haushalte im Lichte der US-Immobilienkrise

Maderitsch, Robert - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

In dieser Arbeit kommt ein neuer ökonometrischer Ansatz für Paneldaten zum Einsatz, welcher den Umgang mit persistenter, unbeobachtbarer Heterogenität in allgemeinen nichtseparablen und nonparametrischen Konstellationen ermöglicht. Der Ansatz geht zurück auf Hoderlein und White (2009)....

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Population Aging and Individual Attitudes toward Immigration: Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects

Calahorrano, Lena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

In the face of rising old-age dependency ratios in industrialized countries like Germany, politicians and their electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social security systems. The question arises whether this policy...

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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview...

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The Economics of Temporary Migrations

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...

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