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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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relatively small wealth gap between Australian- and foreign-born households exists because immigrants to Australia do not …
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This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...
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transfers. The findings reveal that return intentions positively affect financial transfers of immigrants to their home country …
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This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when … using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to … economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany. We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by …
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the determinants of immigrants' savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but … characteristics. We do not find strong evidence for an adjustment of the savings rate between immigrants and natives over time …
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This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that...
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