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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany

Fertig, Michael - 2021

This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by … (GSOEP). To this end, leisure-time activities and attitudes of native Germans, ethnic Germans and foreign immigrants of … and attitudes of foreign immigrants from both generations differ much more from those of native Germans than the …

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Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability …

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Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany : The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Fertig, Michael; Schurer, Stefanie - 2021

profiles of four groups of foreign-born immigrants and ethnic Germans. The importance of time-invariant individual unobserved … assimilation profiles for both annual earnings and unemployment probabilities. Robust assimilation profiles are found for two … cohorts only. Omitted variables, systematic sample attrition and the presence of second generation immigrants in the sample …

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A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

Corak, Miles; Fertig, Michael; Tamm, Marcus - 2021

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty,...

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2021

Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate....

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Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment

Fertig, Michael - 2021

The German practice of compelling weak students to repeat a class has come under heavy criticism recently. Many observers fear that this practice is, at best, useless or even counterproductive. However, little is known so far on the consequences of having to repeat a class, as compared to be...

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Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - 2021

The publication of the OECD report on the PISA 2000 study induced a public outcry in Germany. On average, German students participating in this standardized test performed considerably below the OECD average and substantially worse than those of other European countries, like Finland or Ireland....

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