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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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Returns to regional migration : causal effect or selection on wage growth?
Kratz, Fabian; Brüderl, Josef - 2012
Human capital theory predicts pecuniary returns to regional migration, but also positive self-selection of migrants. Therefore, when estimating the causal effect of migration one has to take care of potential self-selection. Several authors recommend using fixed effects models thereby...
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824259
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Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2015
provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in thelabor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391693
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The 2015 refugee crisis in Germany : concerns about immigration and populism
Sola, Alessandro - 2018
immigration of the German population. Exploiting exogenous variation in survey interview timing of the German Socio-Economic Panel … concerns about immigration. The estimated effect is substantial, representing an increase in concerns of around 22%, compared …, compared to West Germans. In a second section, I show concerns about immigration are positively correlated with political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824925
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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education
Schüller, Simone - 2013
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … terrorism shock. -- immigration ; attitudes ; education ; September 11 ; terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697612
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630299
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With strings attached : grandparent-provided child care and female labor market outcomes
García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoë - 2013
residing close to parents or in-laws have lower wages and that the probability of having to commute increases if relatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221554
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628913
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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