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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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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 - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective. …
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
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. In some countries where labour markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123991
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The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants
Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects several million more as a consequence of the demise of socialism. This paper analyses the economic performance of ethnic German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067558
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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John H.; Haider, Steven J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....
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Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Wages of Immigrant Women
Nielsen, Helena S; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark … and a number of immigrant groups correcting for sample selection and individual specific effects. Based on a Danish panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504609
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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take into account different probabilities of entering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114210
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661532
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Migration to Switzerland: Some New Evidence
Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the 50 years since World War II, to the extent that it now has one of the highest share of foreigners in population among OECD countries. This paper analyses Switzerland’s experience of migration, centring on two main issues:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661751
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Obesity and Price Sensitivity at the Supermarket
Gandal, Neil; Shabelansky, Anastasia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
correlated with obesity. Our main result is that, even after controlling for income levels and other factors, we find that high … 'price-sensitivity' for food products is associated with high obesity rates. We find that a woman who stated that prices were … that price was 'very important.' This suggests that the price effect is not trivial and obesity is a problem that is not …
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