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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352765
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665807
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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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Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2015
provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in thelabor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439790
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: An analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378275
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State dependence in welfare receipt: Transitions before and after a reform
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2015
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527618
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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education
Schüller, Simone - 2013
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291485
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267928