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

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Self-selection, earnings, and out-migration : a longitudinal study of immigrants to Germany

Constant, Amelie; Massey, Douglas S. - 2002

In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate … 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 …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

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

in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …. -- Migration ; ethnicity ; ethnic identity ; ethnosizer ; unemployment ; job search ; reservation wages …

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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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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. …

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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...

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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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Migration, ethnicity and economic integration

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic … remuneration has been the core of research in the labor migration literature. If immigrants fare as well as the natives, then they …

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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

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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