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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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Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of...
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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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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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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life … suggests that immigrants with a stronger commitment to the host country are more likely to achieve homeownership for a given …
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