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Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting differences in services availability across counties as an...
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In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
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There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
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We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not … greater for poor households compared to rich households, other things equal. The income effects are small for native …
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by...
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promote income. Using endogenous switching regression models, we show that local familial networks increase the income of …
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Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
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Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Ausgewählte Ergebnisse werden mit solchen auf Basis der Panel Study of Income Dynamics …This article deals with various methods for dealing with income advantages of owner occupied housing (imputed rents …). It also explores the effects of such advantages on the distribution of individual income. Following a description of the …
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visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …
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-Effects-Modellen analysiert wird. Es zeigt sich, dass die klassischen Ungleichheitsmerkmale Einkommen und Bildung neben dem Alter und dem …, we observe, that individual leisure activities depend strongly on income and education along with age and gender. Over … time, the influence of income also increases. In sum, it appears that differences in leisure are indeed still strongly …
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