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immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … Treiman prestige scale scores increase their earnings, for self-employed immigrant men it is the longevity of the business … that makes a difference. Everything else equal, the earnings of self-employed Turks are no different than the earnings of …
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The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on …
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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
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Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
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worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and … occupational prestige; they decrease with high regional unemployment to vacancies ratios. Everything else equal, the earnings of …
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whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To model the process of out-migration we … selectivity with respect to human capital, earnings, or gender. The likelihood of return migration is strongly determined by the … emigration, however, does not appear to distort cross-sectional estimates of earnings assimilation. …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...
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