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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631580
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Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed : are natives and second generation migrants alike?
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313318
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Circular Migration : Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
Constant, Amelie - 2008
panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773400
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The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives
Akay, Alpaslan - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104941
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie - 2008
This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725845
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger - 2007
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777919
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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779056
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Self-selection, earnings, and out-migration : a longitudinal study of immigrants to Germany
Constant, Amelie; Massey, Douglas S. - In: Journal of population economics 16 (2003) 4, pp. 631-653
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001863419
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Return migration by German guestworkers : neoclassical versus new economic theories
Constant, Amelie; Massey, Douglas S. - In: International migration 40 (2002) 4, pp. 5-38
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001725106
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316802