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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in these challenging jobs. Employing data from the German …, success does not depend on their ethnicity. …
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An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The standard approach of analysing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794541
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Occupational Choice across Generations
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
for both natives and immigrants. For both Germans and immigrants, we find that gender significantly and differentially …
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Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?
Constant, Amelie; D'Agosto, Elena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963868
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The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069121
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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile … regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school … the two minority groups. We find significant wage gender disparities favoring men across all three surveys in the 1970s …
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