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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2016

We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...

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The effect of expansions in maternity leave coverage on children's long-term outcomes

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze … the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave … support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision …

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Who benefits from universal child care? : estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

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'Making Work Pay' : in a rationed labour market

Bargain, Olivier; Caliendo, Marco; Haan, Peter; Orsini, … - 2006

-benefit systems ; microsimulation ; household labour supply ; multinomial logit ; involuntary unemployment ; double-hurdle …

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Drinking is different! : examining the role of locus of control for alcohol consumption

Caliendo, Marco; Hennecke, Juliane - 2020

Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist's point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health...

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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000

Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...

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In-school work experience, parental allowances, and wages

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Fighting youth unemployment : the effects of active labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2011

A substantial number of young unemployed participate in active labor market programs (ALMP) in Germany each year. While the aims of these programs are clear - a fast re-integration into employment or enrollment in further education - a comprehensive analysis of their effectiveness has yet to be...

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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015

Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with the aim of improving the integration prospects of...

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The career costs of children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2011

This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...

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