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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...
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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014
Fertilitätskultur einen signifikanten Anteil der Fertilitätsunterschiede zwischen Einheimischen und Migranten erklärt und positiv mit …, welche besagt, dass die kulturelle Prägung des Ursprungslandes das Verhalten von Migranten dauerhaft beeinflusst. …
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Justice delayed is assimilation denied : rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018 - Draft version: 31.10.2018
Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted...
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Migrant's pursuit of happiness : the impact of adaption, social comparison and relative deprivation ; evidence from a "natural" experiment
Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2012
migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …
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Does intermarriage pay off? : a panel data analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010
Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826431
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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?
Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014
We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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Ethnic identity and educational outcomes of German immigrants and their children
Thum, Anna-Elisabeth - 2013
Identity can be an important driving force for educational performance. Immigrants and their children face the challenge of identifying with their host country's culture. This paper examines whether young immigrants and their children who identify stronger with the German culture are more likely...
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014
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 in particular labor market...
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Intertemporal remittance behaviour by immigrants in Germany
Bettin, Giulia; Lucchetti, Riccardo - 2012
migrants from 84 countries in order to develop an empirical model for the propensity by migrants to remit. Our model takes into … for theoretical models which predict different remittance time paths between return and permanent migrants. -- Migration …
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Belonging or estrangement : the European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity
Prömel, Christopher - 2022
This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …
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