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The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this … middle ages), are significantly more likely to engage in repeat migration and to stay out for longer. Males and those …
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In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187375
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...
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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 … the middle ages), and the newcomers and the more seasoned are significantly more likely to engage in circular migration …
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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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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 …. The out-migration per year is low, about 10%. Migrants are more likely to leave again early after their arrival in Germany …
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years-since-migration exhibits a U-shape. During the first years since migration the likelihood of self-employment decreases …
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research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how … internal migration flows of natives; and what is the role of the business cycle and natives' sentiments on the immigrant flows … crucial in natives' sentiments. Moreover, business cycles and labour market conditions play a significant role on migration …
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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 … selectivity with respect to human capital, earnings, or gender. The likelihood of return migration is strongly determined by the …
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In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134980