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measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well … generations. Roma people seem to face particularly grave integration barriers in European labor markets. -- Ethnicity ; ethnic …
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The standard approach of analysing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...
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The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes...
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Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting differences in services availability across counties as an...
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ethnic majorities can work. But they need to involve all stakeholders, including all levels of government, public and private …
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The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as well as sending countries in three broader areas: labour...
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This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
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Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
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. Using work effort as a proxy for labor supply, 62 established couples, both cohabiting and married (124 participants … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the …
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. We apply the empirical frame- work to evaluate an in-work benefit for low-paid parents in the German institutional … context. The benefit is supposed to increase work incentives for secondary earners. Based on the structural model we are able … intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of …
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