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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313954

International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic situation of the sending countries through remittances and rise … ; migration ; ethnicity ; minority ; assimilation ; integration ; ethnosizing ; Gini-coefficient …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688796

Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

on language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification. In what state …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872706

Ethnic self-identification of first-generation immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura (contributor); … - 2006

for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender … differences and the unimportance of a wide range of pre-migration characteristics like religion and education at home. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003523483

Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

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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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie (contributor); Roberts, Rowan (contributor) - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557350

Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2007

migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration characteristics …

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Migrant ethnic identity : concept and policy implications

Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2007

With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process … of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of … migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates for a new concept to measure the ethnic identity of migrants, models …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561629

Children, kitchen, church: does ethnicity matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor); … - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561643

Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

respect to a number of characteristics of respondents and their organizations. -- ethnic minorities ; migration ; labor market …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529276