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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...
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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20
tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or …
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Labor market conditions and self-employment : a Denmark-Spain comparison
Carrasco, Raquel; Ejrnæs, Mette - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-16
Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being … men and women separately using a strictly comparable panel data set. The results indicate that in Spain self … employment, while this pattern is not so clear in Denmark. Specifically, in Spain those individuals in the bottom part of the …
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The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent’s years since migration on their children’s school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of...
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Repeated job quits : stepping stones or learning about quality?
Gielen, Anne C. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-22
Increasing labor mobility is high on the political agenda because of its supposedly positive effects on labor market functioning. However, little attention has been paid to information imperfections, and to what extent they limit potential efficiency gains of labor mobility. When the quality of...
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Wenig Chancengleichheit in Deutschland : Familienhintergrund prägt eigenen ökonomischen Erfolg
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 4, pp. 3-9
Die Sicherstellung von gleichen Lebenschancen ist ein Ziel, das seit vielen Jahren alle westlich geprägten demokratisch verfassten Gesellschaften teilen. Obwohl alle Bürger formal über gleiche Rechte verfügen, sind auch in Deutschland die Chancen für individuelle Lebensverläufe je nach...
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Bildung der Mütter kommt der Gesundheit ihrer Kinder zugute
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 5, pp. 3-12
Jugendliche rauchen häufiger, treiben seltener Sport und sind öfter übergewichtig, je niedriger der Schulabschluss ihrer Mutter ist. Das zeigt eine Studie des DIW Berlin auf Grundlage von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Zumindest ein Teil dieser gesundheitsbezogenen Unterschiede...
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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...
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Allein tätige Selbständige : starkes Beschäftigungswachstum, oft nur geringe Einkommen
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 7, pp. 3-15
In den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten ist die Zahl der Selbständigen in Deutschland kräftig gestiegen. Dies ist fast ausschließlich auf die Entwicklung bei allein tätigen Selbständigen (Solo-Selbständigen) zurückzuführen. Besonders stark hat sich dabei die Zahl selbständiger Frauen...
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Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-26
Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers’ fear of unemployment under different economic and labor market conditions during the last 15 years. We employ two alternative measures for this fear. The first one looks at the workers’ fear of losing...
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