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Zuwanderungsmotive und Erwerbseinkommen von Migranten

Brenke, Karl; Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 72 (2005) 46, pp. 695-703

enthalten Befragungsergebnisse über Zuwanderer aus nichtwestlichen Industriestaaten in Deutschland und Dänemark. Die … Gründen nach Deutschland oder Dänemark gezogen sind, konnten sich schlechter als die Arbeitsimmigranten in den Arbeitsmarkt … integrieren - das gilt für Deutschland noch mehr als für Dänemark. Eine ergänzende Untersuchung anhand des Sozio …

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Integration von Migranten: ethnische Identität bestimmt ökonomischen Erfolg

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 42, pp. 644-650

Ethnische Vielfalt ist eine Quelle für ökonomische Vorteile, die sich Migranten und ihre Aufnahmeländer zunutze machen können. Insbesondere der Grad an Bindung oder Identifikation mit dem Aufnahme- und Herkunftsland determiniert den ökonomischen Erfolg von Zuwanderern. Grundlage eines...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...

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The dynamics of repeat migration : a Markov chain analysis

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003 - Draft: October 2003

While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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Circular movements And time away from the host country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years being away from the host country using count data models....

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Self-selection, earnings, and out-migration : a longitudinal study of immigrants to Germany

Constant, Amelie; Massey, Douglas S. - 2002

In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To model the process of out-migration we conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women...

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Self-employment against employment or unemployment : Markov transitions across the business cycle

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Eurasian business review 4 (2014) 1, pp. 51-87

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Ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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