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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants...

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Are there gender and county of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations?

Adserà, Alícia; Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 495-526

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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 18 (2005) 4, pp. 631-647

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003233712

Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 23 (2010) 1, pp. 353-372

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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany … characteristics. A robust finding is that German citizenship is very valuable to female immigrants and the generally better educated … citizenship acquisition. Likewise, ethnic origins and religion also influence these decisions. Muslim immigrants in Germany are …

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Stepping stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until (regular) work

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - In: Journal of population economics 24 (2011) 1, pp. 107-139

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The economics of migrant ethnicity

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 487-494

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Explaining differences between the expected and actual duration until return migration : economic changes

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Weynandt, Michèle A. - 2012

This paper explores the difference between intentions and realizations in return migration with the help of a duration model. Using the GSOEP the results lend support to the fact that people use simplifying heuristics when trying to forecast the future; their return intentions indicate bunching...

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Immigrant earnings: language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 15 (2002) 1, pp. 31-57

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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...

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