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Circular migration: counts of exits and years away from the host country

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

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 …

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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

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/10010272313

Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie F.; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Ethnosizing immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those …

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; 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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Clash of cultures: Muslims and Christians in the ethnosizing process

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and …

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Human capital and ethnic self-identification of migrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie F. - 2006

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country

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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie F.; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2007

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 …

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