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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
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Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation
Elsner, Benjamin; Narciso, Gaia; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2013
in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the … migration. Yet we find no evidence that the quality of the network affects the timing of migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329158
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333343
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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268969
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European blue card initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269200
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Ethnic minorities in the European Union: An overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278475
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Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278738
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Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed: Are natives and second generation migrants alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278803