immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Treiman prestige scale scores increase their earnings, for self-employed immigrant men it is the longevity of the business …

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid …

reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of … immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …

occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for the natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both … natives and immigrants. For both Germans and immigrants, we find that gender significantly and differentially affects … when their father is in the white collar or professional category. In stark contrast, the immigrants occupational choice is …