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Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted …
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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 …
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted …
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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...
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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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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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behavior, generating possible consequences for non-migrants in both home and host countries. In this paper we provide a … sources. We discuss the possible consequences of migration temporariness for non-migrants in both home and host countries. …
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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/10010575766
Using a rich panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany as an example of a key European destination country. This study contributes to the literature by performing separate estimations by skill groups. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants'...
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