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Immigrant participation in social assistance programs
Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
The share of foreigners in the German social assistance program exceeds their population share and continues to grow …
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582283
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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001790863
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The gender aspect of immigrants' assimilation in Europe
Lee, Tae Hoon; Peri, Giovanni; Viarengo, Martina - 2020
The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence between immigrants and natives and examining this under-studied dimension in a comprehensive study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372746
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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ migration duration and saving decisions
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959295
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2007
panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …
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Circular movements and time away from the host country
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001869649
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A joint hazard-longitudinal model of the timing of migration, immigrant quality, and labor market assimilation
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market assimilation – two processes that have been assumed to be independent in the existing literature. The JHL model accounts for the endogenous age of entry in estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704297
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Migration experience and access to a first job in Uganda
Boutin, Delphine - 2016
Does experiencing internal migration hasten the access to the labour market? This paper provides an answer by studying the gap in transition length to a first job between young people in Uganda that have ever migrated inside the country and never-migrants of the same age category. To take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520976
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Migration and labor market integration in Europe
Dorn, David; Zweimüller, Josef - 2021
The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31 countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across European countries remain considerably lower than interstate migration in the United States, and spatial variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588919