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Immigrant Fertility in Germany: The Role of Culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German … of fertility differentials between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country’s culture affects …

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off?: A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

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Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask?: An Empirical Comparison

Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (forthcoming) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over...

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The Happy Artist?: An Empirical Application of the Work-Preference Model

Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...

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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase social-capital long-lastingly. I find that individuals...

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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants: Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?

Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more immigrants identify with the German culture and fluently speak the national …

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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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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction, history of … migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration characteristics …

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The Added Worker Effect Differentiated by Gender and Partnership Status: Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss

Triebe, Doreen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

This paper examines the added worker effect (AWE), which refers to the increase of labor supply of individuals in response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies focus on married women's response to those shocks, I...

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The Bigger the Children, the Bigger the Worries: Are Preschoolers and Adolescents Affected Differently by Family Instability with Regard to Non-cognitive Skills?

Peter, Frauke H.; Spiess, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...

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