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The effect of ethnic clustering on migrant integration in Germany
Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - 2014
großer Bedeutung. Hier lässt sich häufig beobachten, dass Migranten gleicher oder ähnlicher Herkunft gemeinsam in der … Hinweis darauf, ob diese ethnische Segregation förderlich oder hinderlich für die Integration von Migranten ist. Insbesondere … Segregation auf den Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Migranten analysiert. Dabei wird der Arbeitsmarkterfolg als Erwerbsbeteiligung zum …
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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...
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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
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Multigenerational living arrangements among migrants
Flake, Regina - 2012
Das Zusammenleben mehrerer Generationen einer Familie in einem Haushalt ist in Deutschland bei Migranten signifikant … weiter verbreitet als bei der einheimischen Bevölkerung. Migranten könnten diese Haushaltsform wählen, um wirtschaftliche … analysiert werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass in Mehrgenerationenhaushalten von Migranten signifikant mehr Haushaltsmitglieder …
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The dynamics of assortative mating in Germany
Grave, Barbara S.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2012
This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is well known that individuals do not mate randomly with respect to social and cultural traits, and that highly assortative mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic...
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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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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice
Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
misst, in der Sprache des Einwanderungslandes zu kommunizieren, in der Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten Substitute … ethnischen Netzwerks einen positiven Einfluss auf die Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten hat, während die linguistische …
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The economic integration of forced migrants : evidence for post-war Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
unfreiwilligen Migranten und ihrer Nachkommen in Westdeutschland. Die empirischen Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich Vertriebene der ersten …
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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants
Giesecke, Matthias; Schuß, Eric - 2019
We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...
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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub–Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015
One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...
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