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The Performance of Immigrants in the German Labor Market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Schueller, Simone - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a … first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106340
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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants : Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?
Angelini, Viola - 2014
and the external social conditions of the immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053704
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Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children : Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants
Meurs, Dominique - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017227
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Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants’ Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2015
self-selection plays an important role in immigrant residential segregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174778
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Residential Segregation and Immigrants’ Satisfaction with the Neighborhood in Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the relationship between immigrant residential …-selection plays an important role in immigrant residential segregation. Our result holds true even when controlling for other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175301
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In Vino Pecunia? The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus - 2008
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the alcohol-income puzzle. Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218922
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie - 2014
capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050455
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Assimilation and Cohort Effects for German Immigrants
Gundel, Sebastian; Peters, Heiko - 2008
Demographic change and the rising demand for highly qualified labor in Germany attracts notice to the analysis of immigration. In addition, the pattern of immigration changed markedly during the past decades. Therefore we use the latest data of the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220084
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Convergence or Divergence? Immigrant Wage Assimilation Patterns in Germany
Zibrowius, Michael - 2012
Using a rich panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany as an example of a key European destination country. This study contributes to the literature by performing separate estimations by skill groups. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165945