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Musn't grumble : immigration, health and health service use in the UK and Germany

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2013

A rise in population caused by increased immigration, is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in … immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant increases in immigration in recent years. This study uses … native-born sample populations make little difference to these broad findings. -- Immigration ; Health ; Health Service …

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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Return migration and the "healthy immigrant effect"

Sander, Monika - 2007

According to the "healthy immigrant effect" (HIE), immigrants upon arrival are healthier than locally born residents. However, this health advantage is supposed to diminish or even disappear over a relatively short period and the immigrants' health status is converging to that of the natives....

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The long-run effects of immigration : evidence across a barrier to refugee settlement

Ciccone, Antonio; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian - 2022

After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of Germany. We examine their eﬀect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the municipality level. Our identiﬁcation strategy is based...

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Exposure to past immigration waves and attitudes toward newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration …

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Losing work, moving away? : regional mobility after job loss

Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa - 2016

Using German survey data, we investigate the relationship between involuntary job loss and regional mobility. Our results show that job loss has a strong positive effect on the propensity to relocate. We also analyze whether the high and persistent earnings losses of displaced workers can in...

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Job search, locus of control, and internal migration

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2016

Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...

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When have all the graduates gone? : internal cross-state migration of graduates in Germany 1984-2004

Busch, Oliver - 2007

The present paper analyzes the out-migration of graduates to other German states or abroad based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Applying duration analysis, it can be shown that, ten years after graduation, slightly more than seventy percent of the graduates still live in the state...

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Between life cycle model, labor market integration and discrimination : an econometric analysis of the determinants of return migration

Schuß, Eric - 2016

This paper studies the determinants of return migration by applying the Cox hazard model to longitudinal micro data from 1996 to 2012, including immigrants of a wide range of nationalities. The empirical results reveal the validity of the life cycle model of Migration Economics and a strong...

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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschkeo, Clemens - 2015

For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...

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