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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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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267928
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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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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896279
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223210
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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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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185776
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519441
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069124