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Do better pre-migration skills accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 212-222

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Migration and wage-setting : reassessing the labor market effects of migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 113 (2011) 2, pp. 286-317

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Migration and imperfect labor markets : theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Hauptmann, Andreas; Jahn, Elke J.; … - In: European economic review : EER 66 (2014), pp. 205-225

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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013

include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …

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Is there monopsonistic discrimination against immigrants? First evidence from linked employer-employee data

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J. - 2012

This paper investigates immigrants' and natives' labour supply to the firm within a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that once accounting for unobserved worker...

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 13/15, pp. 1581-1586

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Etnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2007

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