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Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration

Brenner, Jan - 2007

The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable home education on attitude formation. Yet, factors such as parents' knowledge, their morals, and their weltanschauung are likely to influence the attitudes of the next...

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You're Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2008

an overall effect of unemployment, providing prima facie evidence of a reduced outside work option, large investments in …

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Cultural transmission and political atitudes : explaining differences between natives and immigrants in Western Europe

Gonnot, Jérôme; Lo Polito, Federica - 2023

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Financial Uncertainty in Germany and its Impact on Western European Terrorism

Jovanovic, Mario - 2011

This paper analyses the link between the VDAX as a proxy for European financial uncertainty and the number of terror incidents in Western Europe. Considering data of the Global Terrorism Database, the number of terror incidents does – on average – not affect financial uncertainty. In...

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Wind of change? Cultural determinants of maternal labor supply

Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2020 - This version: May 2021

border within the same commuting zone shows that culture matters. Indeed, East German mothers return to work more quickly and … German female migrants return to work earlier and work longer hours than their West German colleagues even after long … induces "native" West German mothers to accelerate their return to work after childbirth, suggesting that migration might be a …

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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Schurer, Stefanie - 2008

The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...

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Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany

Sinning, Mathias - 2007

This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data.A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to send transfers abroad and the amount of transfers.The findings reveal that return intentions...

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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007

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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Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants

Brenner, Jan - 2007

We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using twelve waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel.The German labor market closely ties job accessibility to vocational education which likely hampers the transferability of foreign...

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Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany

Sinning, Mathias - 2007

This paper examines the relative wealth position and the portfolio choices of immigrants in Germany. The empirical findings reveal significant differences in overall wealth and various wealth components between German natives and immigrants. Differences in real estate constitute the major part...

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