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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We …
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immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
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low wage deciles that is even more pronounced within immigrant subgroups. Cultural and economic distances each have a …
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This paper investigates how immigrants' Body Mass Index (BMI) changes with increasing years since migration in Germany. The data are drawn from three waves (2002, 2004, and 2006) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The results indicate a clear increase of the BMI with additional...
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We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous literature, the dynamic models indicate that there is an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages among young...
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not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …
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Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the...
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are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our … significant parts of the obesity disparities between these two groups. …
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …
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and the external social conditions of the immigrant. …
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