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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?
Schurer, Stefanie - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264729
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269990
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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?
Schurer, Stefani - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018037
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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap: Evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803892
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Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration
Brenner, Jan - 2007
The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable … about immigration controlling for unobserved family specific effects.Our results suggest that benchmark models used in the … literature yield inconsistent estimates of the main determinants of attitudes towards immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264694
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Mental health assimilation of Australian immigrants
Janisch, Laura M. - 2017
psychischen Erkrankung zu leiden, mit jedem Jahr welches seit der Einwanderung vergangen ist, ansteigt. Für weibliche … Immigrantinnen wird zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Einwanderung zudem eine vier Prozent niedrigere Wahrscheinlichkeit gefunden, an einer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780628
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787975
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"The mother of all political problems"? On asylum seekers and elections
Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2020
As immigration to Europe has increased, so has support for extremist parties. While many studies have examined the … effect of immigration on election outcomes, few have probed the effect of asylum seekers - those fleeing strife and … effects for parties on the far right and left diverge markedly. Under economic prosperity, immigration increases support on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321397
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Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501321
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Becoming neighbors with refugees and voting for the far-right? The impact of refugee inflows at the small-scale level
Fremerey, Melinda; Hörnig, Lukas; Schaffner, Sandra - 2022
We investigate the effect of the refugee inflow between 2014 and 2017 on voting for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the national parliamentary election in 2017 in Germany. Drawing on unique small-scale data enables us to distinguish between the contact theory, captured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175979