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The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender …
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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
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Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender … Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database …’s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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We analyze first time parents’ work patterns. Little empirical work exists on the influence of the partner’s (change of … the infant is 3-5 months (when the Dutch family has to "choose" its paid parental work arrangement). Fathers do change … week after the birth of the first child, makes it more likely that the mother starts work when the infant is 3-5 months old …
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