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A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
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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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on repeated information about migrants' return intentions. Our results suggest that educational investments in the son …
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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 investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by …
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In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German … Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover …, I investigate to what extent the lower mobility among immigrants in Germany is due to 'ethnic capital' as suggested by …
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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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We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
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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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Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of …. Compared to natives with the same observable and unobservable characteristics, unemployed migrants do not find less stable … concentrate on the job finding process of Turkish migrants to fight their disadvantages on the labor market …
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