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I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
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Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
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Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of …
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Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
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The determinants of migrants' remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In contrast to previous studies we analyze the motives for remittances not only for foreigners but also for the broader group of individuals with a personal migration background. Major...
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rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …
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2007, about 7.3 million foreigners were living in Germany. While the total number of foreigners has decreased over the last … decade, female migration to Germany has increased. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany, although the …-specific determinants of remittances from Germany. Here we attempt to fill this gap, focusing on gender roles and network effects. We …
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enttäuscht wird. Demgegenüber setzt die Ausgrenzung von Migrantennachkommen in Deutschland schon im Bildungssystem ein, so dass … ; Deutschland ; Frankreich …
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into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany … results call for a high degree of caution as far as importingʺ UK-style Tax Credits to Germany is concerned. In-work support …
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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 attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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