Showing 1 - 10 of 17,472
In contrast to result-driven publications in which the academic narrative constructs the process of data analysis and the conceptual framework as purposefully designed and inevitably leading to the findings, this article will take a closer look at the concrete development of interpretative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292555
Aufenthalts in Deutschland und sogar für die sogenannte zweite Generation. Personen aus den ehemaligen Anwerbeländern - Türkei …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602094
on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269090
This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … savings. Using the German dataset, we exploit a natural experiment arising from a change in the nationality law in Germany to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277847
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600907
market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the … Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living in Germany. The first contribution of this paper is to quantify the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268515
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …, we explore how temporary migrants differ from permanent migrants in their labor supply decisions and behavior. Upon … correcting for endogeneity bias, temporary migrants are found to work more hours than permanent ones. This result supports the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269528
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271257
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … Germany lead to better earnings prospects compared to degrees obtained abroad for persons with migration background …. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297935
these two groups in Germany. The estimates show a substantial gap for both groups with respect to natives. Discarding … Germany is an important component of economic integration and degrees obtained abroad are valued less. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298665