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Circular movements and time away from the host country

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958

Clash of cultures : Muslims and Christians in the ethnosizing process

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

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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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 … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …

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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to … natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information …

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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2015

the health of immigrants and the positive selection, screening and discrimination applied by the host countries. In this … data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …

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What are migration networks?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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The dynamics of repeat migration : a Markov chain analysis

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009

migrate to Fortress Europe over the period of 1990 to 2001. While we find some differences in the exodus of skilled Africans …

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