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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

than natives. The results of this study stress the importance of an early educational integration of migrants for a … successful labor market integration in the long run. …

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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...

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Do migrant-native achievement gaps narrow? : evidence over the school career

Vonnahme, Christina - 2021

The integration of foreign origin students in host countries’ educational systems has mostly been studied based on …Die Integration von Kindern ausländischer Herkunft in das Bildungssystem wurde bisher meist anhand von …

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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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Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education?

Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Santos Silva, Manuel; Heidland, Tobias - 2015

data from Moldova, one of the countries with the highest emigration rates in the world, and an instrumental variable …

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What explains the urban wage premium? : sorting, non-portable or portable agglomeration effects?

Frings, Hanna; Kamb, Rebecca - 2021

Using administrative data for West Germany, we study the relative importance of different determinants of the urban wage premium. More explicitly, we distinguish worker sorting, as well as portable and non-portable agglomeration effects. Our results indicate that worker sorting explains about...

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

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

integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of … detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school … and their social integration in the class. Conditional on the immigrant concentration in the class, the degree of …

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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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Mental health assimilation of Australian immigrants

Janisch, Laura M. - 2017

Mental diseases are a widespread phenomenon and trigger massive direct and indirect costs. Using Australian household survey data this study analyzes assimilation of immigrants’ mental health over time. Therefore, this study contributes to the literature since previous literature has focused...

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