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Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Satisfaction with the Neighborhood in Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertvadze, Georgi - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the relationship between immigrant residential segregation and immigrants' satisfaction with the neighborhood. The estimates show that immigrants living in segregated areas are less satisfied with the neighborhood. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601052
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352763
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600915
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041906
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Justice delayed is assimilation denied: Rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018
Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU's targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960826
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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants: Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?
Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896283
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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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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State?: Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615362
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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 … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164140