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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to …
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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
questioned, they can be classified into four states – assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is …
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Gataullina, Liliya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …
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Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, and ethnic self-identification, the method classifies that individual into one of four states: assimilation, integration …
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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants
Elsayed, Ahmed; de Grip, Andries - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants' perceived integration, as … for the existence of a negative trend in the integration of Muslims prior to the terrorist attacks. We further show that … terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market: Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
On the basis of three micro datasets, the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002, the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002 and the Dutch Labour Force Survey 2002, we investigate the labour market position of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761889
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Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel with detailed local labor market characteristics for the period 1984 to 2009. We exploit the longitudinal component of the data to analyze how...
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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...
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