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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014
This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462147
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation siblings
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2015
education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342868
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Justice delayed is assimilation denied : rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018 - Draft version: 31.10.2018
Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957635
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630478
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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630741
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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?
Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014
We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355330
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074410
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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009865
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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply
Fenge, Robert - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048887
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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2012
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107062