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Musn't grumble: Immigration, health and health service use in the UK and Germany

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2013

A rise in population caused by increased immigration, is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in … immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant increases in immigration in recent years. This study uses …

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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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Do immigrants bring good health?

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2014

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival … population. Our results suggest that immigration reduces the likelihood that residents report negative health outcomes. We show …

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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...

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The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...

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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State? Evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...

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Population Aging and Individual Attitudes toward Immigration: Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects

Calahorrano, Lena - 2011

electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social … typically found to be more averse to immigration. However, cross-sectional investigations may confound age with cohort effects …. This investigation uses the 1999-2008 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to separate the effect of age on immigration …

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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …

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Immigration, social networks, and occupational mismatch

Alaverdyan, Sevak; Zaharieva, Anna - 2019

In this study we investigate the link between the job search channels that workers use to find employment and the probability of occupational mismatch in the new job. Our specific focus is on differences between native and immigrant workers. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel...

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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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