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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272314
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264991
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265004
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271082
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271088
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg
Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich weiche Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286052
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260825
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Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260979