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Positional Income Concerns: Prevalence and Relationship with Personality and Economic Preferences

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-a-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and...

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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the "Children of the Wall"

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment to estimate that the children from...

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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...

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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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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'...

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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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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 …

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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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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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