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Circular movements And time away from the host country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003

Germany, the largest European immigration country, are indeed repeat migrants. The findings indicate that immigrants from …

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Gender, ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority …

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Ethnic minorities in the European Union : an overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Clash of cultures : Muslims and Christians in the ethnosizing process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

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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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2007

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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

but changed the composition of the immigrants, (iii) any negative effects in the labour market on wages or employment are …

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High-skilled immigration policy in Europe

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … expected between native actors that favor and disfavor further immigration, improving European immigration policies and … the high-skilled ones. -- High-skilled migration ; mobility ; immigration policy ; Europe ; European Union …

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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg

Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich "weiche" Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...

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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

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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Do ethnic minorities “stretch” their time? : evidence from the UK time use survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...

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