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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331886
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272279
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272287
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272328
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Microeconometric Analyses on Economic Consequences of Selective Migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698351
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Explaining the labour market outcomes of first, second and third generation immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272645
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Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender
Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 54 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20
, the findings of the paper, where special attention is paid to migrants, offer a better understanding on the intergenera …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518448
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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives
Constant, Amelie F. - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272290
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Wiiw studies on the integration of Middle Eastern refugees in Austria, based on FIMAS surveys and register-based labour market career data
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M.; Jestl, Stefan; … - 2023
refugees' labour market experiences in Austria, compared to other non-European migrants from low- and medium-income countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474965
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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
differences between migrants and natives are larger in the German region. Building on this, the paper begins with a comparison of … show returns to factors of wage-earning migrants are lower in the German region for a preponderant majority of migrant … approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316778