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A decomposition analysis of cigarette consumption differences between male Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012

Dang, Rui - 2016

In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the...

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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio–economic causes

Dang, Rui - 2015

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...

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Social status and public expectations : self-selection of high-skilled migrants

Lumpe, Christian; Lumpe, Claudia; Meckl, Jürgen - 2016

We analyze public expectations about migrants’ provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty’s (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the...

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Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration

Lumpe, Claudia - 2017

Einwanderungslands von hochqualifizierten Migranten beeinflusst. Wir kombinieren Makrodaten aus dem IAB brain drain Datensatz mit … hochqualifizierten Migranten (stocks) in den wesentlichen OECD Einwanderungsländern zu messen. Die empirischen Ergebnisse zeigen, daß … durch eigene harte Arbeit erzielt werden kann, einen höheren Anteil an hochqualifizierten Migranten attrahieren. Dieses …

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