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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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The effect of income on religiousness
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious … behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer … income on religiousness. Households that earn more go to church more often. Households that earn more are also more likely to …
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The lifecycle of the 47%
Fullerton, Don; Rao, Nirupama - 2016
with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …
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Returns to citizenship? : Evidence from Germany's recent immigration reforms
Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - 2014
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of...
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Why birthright citizenship matters for immigrant children : impacts on parental educational choice
Felfe, Christina; Rainer, Helmut; Saurer, Judith - 2016
Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision- making. For example, in many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enrol their children in preschool programs or enable them access to higher education....
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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success
Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014
Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a...
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The effect of recent technological change on US immigration policy
Brey, Björn - 2021
Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue that as automation shifted employment from routine to manual occupations at the bottom end of the skill distribution, it increased competition between natives and immigrants,...
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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
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Between fear mongers and Samaritans : does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?
Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020 - This version: 1 July 2020
effects are more pronounced for middle-income earners and respondents with a low level of education. Deviations of people …
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Escaping the exchange of information : tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment
Langenmayr, Dominika; Zyska, Lennard - 2021
local investment or a fixed fee. We show analytically that high-income individuals acquire a new citizenship to lower the …
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