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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009

model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial links can still play an important role in the emigration … by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall … living with job opportunities in the host country are also very important drivers of the emigration of brainy Africans to the …

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China's latent human capital investment : achieving milestones and competing for the top

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable achievements in education as well as its...

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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie; Meng, Jingzhou; Tien, Bienvenue; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable achievements in education as well as its...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002385

School effects and labor market outcomes for young adults in the 1980s and 1990s

Constant, Amelie; Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2002

This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 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...

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Cultural integration in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

differentiated by ethnic origin, gender and generation. This allows visualization of differences by ethnic groups and development …

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2005

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Ethnosizing immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2006

The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301658

Migration, ethnicity and economic integration

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925538

Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed : are natives and second generation migrants alike?

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...

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