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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie F.; 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...

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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2007

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to...

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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

but changed the composition of the immigrants, (iii) any negative effects in the labour market on wages or employment are …

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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...

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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the … dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment … that lead to fluctuations between employment and self-employment, directly or through the unemployment state. Migrants are …

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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

an immobile labour force and the eurosklerosis phenomenon. In such a situation, an economically motivated immigration …

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