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Bringing home the money : xenophobia and remittances ; the case of Germany
Holst, Elke (contributor); Schäfer, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725980
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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective
Bičáková, Alena (contributor);  … - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726010
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Gender, migration, remittances : evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke (contributor); Schäfer, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726148
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Das enttäuschte Versprechen der Integration : Migrantennachkommen in Frankreich und Deutschland
Tucci, Ingrid (contributor); Groh-Samberg, Olaf (contributor) - 2008
enttäuscht wird. Demgegenüber setzt die Ausgrenzung von Migrantennachkommen in Deutschland schon im Bildungssystem ein, so dass … ; Deutschland ; Frankreich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779651
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Apply with caution : introducing UK-style in-work support in Germany
Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michal (contributor) - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285730
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304390
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On the returns to occupational qualification in terms of subjective and objective variables : a GEE-type approach to the estimation of two-equation panel models
Spieß, Martin (contributor) - 2006
This article proposes an estimation approach for panel models with mixed continuous and ordered categorical outcomes based on generalized estimating equations for the mean and pseudo-score equations for the covariance parameters. A numerical study suggests that efficiency can be gained as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304412
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304424
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Income inequality in the 1990s : comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany
Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor);  … - 2006
and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003315460
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338192