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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...

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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting

Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859346

EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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Unemployment dynamics among migrants and natives

Uhlendorff, Arne (contributor); … - 2006

"Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...

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Human capital and ethnic self-identification of migrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - 2006

"The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving...

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Clash of cultures : Muslims and Christians in the ethnosizing process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

schooling in the home country and with older age at entry as well as female Muslims remain stronger attached to the country of … male and female Christians. Christians who were young at entry are best integrated or assimilated, exhibiting lower …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...

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Cultural integration in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2005

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective …

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Gender, ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...

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