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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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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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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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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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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

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

tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeownership decision, using a … two-dimensional model of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both origin and host cultures. The evidence …

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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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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation … majority as well as paternal minority identity are positively related to the educational attainment of second-generation youth … effect of maternal majority identity can be explained by mothers' German language proficiency, while the beneficial effect of …

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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 analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....

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Ethnic Concentration and Extreme Right-Wing Voting Behavior in West Germany

Dill, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative data from 1996 to 2009, I investigate thequestion whether or not right-wing extremism of German residents is affected by the ethnic concentration of foreigners living in the same residential area. My results show a...

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Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany

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

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated residential areas are more likely to report discrimination because of their ethnic background. This applies to both segregated areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same...

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