Similar Search Results

Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch … deutschen Pass. Etwa die Hälfte der Immigranten, die seit 1984 nach Deutschland kamen, sind der Gruppe der Aussiedler …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260753

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260897

Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three German data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260898

O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in affecting children?s mobility characteristics. A key insight we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260973

Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260975

To claim or not to claim: estimating non-take-up of social assistance in Germany and the role of measurement error

Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) in Germany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264975

One last puff? Public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271584

Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2007

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272277

The institutional framework of ethnic inclusion and exclusion: A cross-national analysis of the earnings of foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada

Reitz, Jeffrey G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Calabrese, Tony; … - 1998

The European social-welfare model differs from the North American individualistic model in the patterns, more than the overall extent, of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Focussing on foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada as illustrative cases, conventional earnings decomposition...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283781

Missing Income Data in the German SOEP: Incidence, Imputation and its Impact on the Income distribution

Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003

This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to item-non-response and with imputation as one alternative strategy to cope with this issue. In contrast to cross-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324204