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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/10011787325
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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/10012320601
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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/10013171747
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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/10012497324
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779076
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419574
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International migration from and to Prussia : 1862-1871
Bauer, Thomas K.; Schulze, Kathrin - 2023
territory was a country of emigration, not immigration. Using county-level data for the period from 1861 to 1871, this paper … examines the determinants of emigration from and immigration to Prussia. The empirical results indicate that emigration from … an inverted U-shaped effect on emigration. Immigration was concentrated in counties with a high degree of urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343140
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The geography of refugee shocks
Glitz, Albrecht; Hörnig, Lukas; Körner, Konstantin; … - 2023
are closely linked to immigration-induced changes in neighborhood-level amenities and LLM-level productivity. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227042
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Origin country conflict and immigrant physical health
Compton, Ryan A.; Craig, Andrea N.; Heger, Dörte; … - 2024
Immigration Database (IMDB), as well as the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)/ International Peace Research Institute in Oslo … Immigration Database (IMDB) sowie dem Armed Conflict Dataset des Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)/International Peace Research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501267
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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/10012800461