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Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration
Lumpe, Claudia - 2017
location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from …
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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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Gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants
Flake, Regina - 2011
This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in … mobility - neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in the relative … earnings position are analyzed. The results show that migrants are less likely than natives to worsen their relative earnings …
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes …
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Inter-ethnic marriage and partner satisfaction
Sinning, Mathias; Worner, Shane - 2010
This paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than nativeonly and foreign-only couples. --...
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The introduction of Bismarck's social security system and its effects on marriage and fertility in Prussia
Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2021
Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should...
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The effect of ethnic clustering on migrant integration in Germany
Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - 2014
Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants could be important for integration policies, especially in the light of rising immigration and a skilled worker shortage. Yet, both economic theory and empirical research for...
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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023
We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on...
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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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Thrifty wives and lavish husbands? : Bargaining power and financial decisions in Germany
Keese, Matthias - 2011
Numerous contributions in the literature show that household outcomes are influenced by the distribution of intra-household decision power expressed by bargaining indicators such as relative income of the spouses. Since women can expect a longer retirement period, increased female bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124261