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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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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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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 generation....
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This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...
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There is a significantly higher prevalence of multigenerational living arrangements among migrants than among natives in Germany which may be explained with migrants choosing this household structure in order to compensate for economic disadvantages. This hypothesis is tested by analyzing the...
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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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gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. We find that the … gender wage gap narrowed by more than 13 percent at the lowest decile and by less than 4 percent at the highest decile. The … decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at …
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effects, the relocating trend in long-distance migration of university freshmen does not show any particular gender …
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indicate that there are hardly significant gender differences in the determinants of self-initiated training while employer …, besides job characteristics, as important factors determining the gender gap in employer-provided training participation …
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women exist. However, whereas men allocate most of their time to market work, women still do most of the non-market work … work that allows for simultaneity and endogeneity of the time allocation decisions of the spouses is applied. The results … suggest that male time in market and non-market work is unaffected by their wife’s time use, while women adjust their time …
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