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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being … by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual information … individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269182
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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country?s habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262554
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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003
Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261527
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464
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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262283
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262388
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Ethnosizing immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 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 …. We find that ethnic identity persists stronger for females, Muslims, those with schooling in the home country, and older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272325
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The nature and extent of job separations in Germany: some new evidence from SOEP
Haile, Getinet A. - 2009
This paper analyses job separations in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 1984 to 2003. Based on detailed reasons for job separation and different SOEP samples, the paper attempts to establish the nature of job separations in Germany. It brings to light some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274176
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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286900
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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? Evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289989