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Integrating young male refugees: Initial evidence from an inclusive soccer project
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2017
The study analyses data collected among a group of young male refugees who participated in a randomized experiment …. Refugees were randomly assigned to a soccer project, which aimed at facilitating labour market integration, or to a control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623726
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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2008
Immigrants consist of foreigners and citizens with migration background. We analyze the wage gap between natives and … immigrants who completed education abroad reduces much of the immigrants' wage gap. This implies educational attainment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298665
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299688
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567621
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the … this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings are analyzed for foreigners in Germany with joint consideration … of up to four types of selection. The results show that language proficiency significantly increases participation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298666
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Do refugees impact crime? Causal evidence from large-scale refugee immigration to Germany
Lange, Martin; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2023
large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015-2016. Arriving refugees were dispersed across the country … offenders from refugees' origin countries. Yet, we find some indication of over-reporting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426861
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298807
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297670
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical studies of the effectiveness of four types of ALMPs employed across Europe to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319208
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical studies of the effectiveness of four types of ALMPs employed across Europe to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957600