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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
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/10011613463
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to naturalize beyond the standard individual and human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600723
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to naturalize beyond the standard individual and human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069124
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration characteristics … explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600693
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600703
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069122
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration characteristics … explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018712
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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550327
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: A labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282640
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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 Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties by state authorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164140