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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self … the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among …

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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858734

And then there were four... how many (and which) measures of active labor market policy do we still need? : finding a balance after the evaluation of the Hartz reforms in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2007

labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a reduced range of active labor market policy schemes focusing on …

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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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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also …

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

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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Ethnosizing immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2006

The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...

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Die Messung der Greifkraft als objektives Gesundheitsmaß in sozialwissenschaftlichen Bevölkerungsumfragen Erhebungsmethodische und inhaltliche Befunde auf der Basis von SHARE und S...

Hank, Karsten; Jürges, Hendrik; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2006

-sectional analyses of grip strength in Germany. The focus of the present study is on the analysis of older individuals aged 50+. The … multivariate analysis shows that socio-economic characteristics (except for men's employment status) do not have an autonomous …

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Changing from PAPI to CAPI : a longitudinal study of mode-effects based on an experimental design

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter (contributor); … - 2006

This paper examines the implication of the move to CAPI for data quality by analyzing the conversion from PAPI to CAPI of a subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which was done within an experimental design. The 2000 addresses for the sample E of SOEP were split into two subsamples...

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Ethnic self-identification of first-generation immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura (contributor); … - 2006

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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