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suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
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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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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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for Germany, the largest European immigration country, shows that more than 60% of the migrants are indeed repeat migrants … for repeated moves of migrants between the host and home countries. The Markov transition matrix between the states in two …. The out-migration per year is low, about 10%. Migrants are more likely to leave again early after their arrival in Germany …
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Germany, the largest European immigration country, are indeed repeat migrants. The findings indicate that immigrants from … circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years …. Those migrants with family in the home country remain out longer but are not more frequently out. …
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a … new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk …
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age at the time of entry. Young migrants are assimilated or integrated the most. While Muslims do not integrate, Catholics …
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This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...
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