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The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard...
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
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example, failure to control for endogeneity of immigration itself leads to an underestimate of its employment impact. …Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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Spouse's relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant …-neutral specialization index. Results indicate that for immigrants intermarriage is indeed related to less specialization, as is similar …, on the other hand, the likelihood to specialize increases with intermarriage. This might result from differences in …
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Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better...
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Partnerschaften zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen gelten gemeinhin als Ergebnis erfolgreicher sozialer Integration und möglicherweise treibende Kraft hinter ökonomischem Erfolg. So verfügen inter-ethnisch lebende Migrantinnen und Migranten über eine höhere Schulbildung, einen besseren...
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, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …
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particular at the marriage market. We also find some effects on educational attainment, employment rates and wages, although …
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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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