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that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and … attitudes towards them. Insufficient knowledge of the official language, insufficient education, discriminatory attitudes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794541
that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and … attitudes towards them. Insufficient knowledge of the official language, insufficient education, discriminatory attitudes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854503
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers … acknowledged as the single most important integration barrier; low education and self-confidence as well as cultural differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963709
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700965
Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to study opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their … acknowledged as the single most important integration barrier; low education and self-confidence as well as cultural differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528230
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by … risk proclivity by reducing immigrants' risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes … across immigrants of different origins. Our analysis of the adaptation behavior of immigrants suggests that acquisition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331886
reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of … immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963624
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963826
reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of … immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761965
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792497