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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018

Effekt des Anteils an Migranten in der Klasse oder Schule untersuchen, konzentrieren wir uns auf die sprachliche …

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Culture and the labor supply of female immigrants

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...

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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012

Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...

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Linguistic distance and the language fluency of immigrants

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2011

We use a newly available measure of linguistic distance developed by the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing pronunciation and vocabulary of language...

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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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Remittances and the brain drain : evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa

Bredtmann, Julia; Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016

Migranten auf deren Rücküberweisungen an ihre im Heimatland verbliebenen Haushalte. Das Vorhandensein umfangreicher … Informationen über die Migranten als auch über die Haushalte im Heimatland sowie die Verwendung von Haushalts … zeigen, dass die Bildung der Migranten keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf deren Wahrscheinlichkeit hat, Rücküberweisungen zu …

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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes : evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law

Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017

The recent literature on intergenerational mobility has shown that attitudes and preferences are an important pathway for the intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes. We contribute to this literature by documenting that intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes also...

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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice

Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017

misst, in der Sprache des Einwanderungslandes zu kommunizieren, in der Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten Substitute … ethnischen Netzwerks einen positiven Einfluss auf die Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten hat, während die linguistische …

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Natives' gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2023

Using data from the European Social Survey 2002-2020 covering immigrants in 25 European countries, this paper investigates the role of natives' gender norms in the labor market integration of female immigrants. To analyze the role of natives' gender norms, we exploit intertemporal,...

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