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This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
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Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …
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also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …
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This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our...
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This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can follow their children after they have...
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This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s …, while the US and Germany experienced similar changes at the top of the distribution throughout the 80s and 90s, the patterns …
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This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
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In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany …
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This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and …
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