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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State?: Evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...

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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 … within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education inmoderating the negative …

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Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival … population. Our results suggest that immigration reduces the likelihood that residents report negative health outcomes. We show …

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

, overall, education and in particular labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive …

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Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...

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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...

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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...

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Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Satisfaction with the Neighborhood in Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertvadze, Georgi - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the relationship between immigrant residential segregation and immigrants' satisfaction with the neighborhood. The estimates show that immigrants living in segregated areas are less satisfied with the neighborhood. This is...

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration?: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...

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