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males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …
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mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males … and females. Moreover, in some countries results show convergence between cohort and gender specific travel demand: women … ever before. Do these developments hold also for Germany? Based on socio-economic and demographic analysis of gender …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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, gender and race. We find that adjusting for the aging of the U.S. labor force increases the severity of this recession. Our …
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We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration (M) effect and the joint...
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significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …
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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio … part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network … effects suggests that remittance behavior is affected by traditional gender roles. Third, the migrant's social integration in …
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