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International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay : The Role of Labor Market Institutions

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2007

Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family gap. Our results indicate that these policies reduce the price effect of having children but...

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger - 2007

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Unemployment Dynamics Among Migrants and Natives

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...

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Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik - 2018

reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very … concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant …

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …

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New Approaches to the Study of Long-Term Non-Employment Duration in Italy, Germany and Spain

Contini, Bruno - 2017

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …

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Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2017

The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the...

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Immigration and Crimes Against Natives : The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany

Huang, Yue - 2019

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives …

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Ingwersen, Kai - 2019

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … West more productive than the East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages … based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible …

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