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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601059
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399837
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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. - 2012
inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of … Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after migration … new society, that means whether they are relatively deprived with respect to earnings or not. We estimate fixed- and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286907
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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. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … into the new society, that means whether they are relatively deprived with respect to earnings or not. We estimate fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818242
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Convergence or divergence? Immigrant wage assimilation patterns in Germany
Zibrowius, Michael - 2012
. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on average, although clear … offsetting the diverging trend in the experience earnings profiles. Still, wage differences between natives and immigrants remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287579
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Convergence or Divergence?: Immigrant Wage Assimilation Patterns in Germany
Zibrowius, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on average, although clear … offsetting the diverging trend in the experience earnings profiles. Still, wage differences between natives and immigrants remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896279
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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2016
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499559
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Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2011
Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated residential areas are more likely to report discrimination because of their ethnic background. This applies to both segregated areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601058
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Holding the door slightly open: Germany's migrants' return intentions and realizations
Sallam, Hend - 2023
Return migration intentions are complex and are not necessarily followed by future return migration. Our study compares … successful return or repeated migration with self-declared return intentions. We take advantage of the latest German Socio …-Economic Panel survey dropout studies and fieldwork to observe a wider return migration window than reported in the literature to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301217
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Who leaves and when? Selective outmigration of immigrants from Germany
Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012
The paper provides new evidence on the outmigration of foreign-born immigrants. We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and employ penalised spline smoothing in the context of a Poisson-type Generalised Additive Mixed Model (GAMM), which enables us to incorporate bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288710