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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497002
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777149
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762078
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777156
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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566767
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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind
Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561763
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
, that differences in trust levels between the two host countries increase with acculturation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785487
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884255
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The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Open and flexible labor markets foster growth, development and integration in Europe. The single European labor market is still a vision, however, whereas the core challenge is a lack of sufficient mobility. The presentation discusses the value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884383