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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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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated … against the available empirical evidence. The paper concludes that immigration cannot per se be considered as good or bad for …
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environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family …
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Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that … expected between native actors that favor and disfavor further immigration, improving European immigration policies and …
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of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … immigration from countries that were hit by the crisis, although the annual net flows are still too small to significantly reduce …
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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 … migrants with German passports exit more frequently, while those with higher education exit less; there are no differences with …
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The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...
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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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