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Children, kitchen, church: does ethnicity matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264969
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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 differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264991
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265004
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Attitudes towards immigrants, other integration barriers, and their veracity
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265024
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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as well as sending countries in three broader areas: labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268969
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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being … by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual information … on language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification. In what state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269182
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Migration and globalization: challenges and perspectives for the research infrastructure
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269198
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269200
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464
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Migration, ethnicity and economic integration
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
how immigrants identify with the culture of their home and receiving countries, and if natives and immigrants have the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269634