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examine the labor supply and wage assimilation of families whose members immigrated together relative to families whose …
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. We further examine the labor supply and wage assimilation of families whose members immigrated together relative to …
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Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using …
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predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants' objective living conditions … with their length of stay. Using European Social Survey data, we show that the subjective well-being assimilation of first … perceptions continue to impair subjective well-being assimilation across generations. However, compared with natives, first …
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Recently, homeownership rates of migrants in Germany increased by more than 10 percentage points. To shed light on this sharp increase, this paper investigates the change in homeownership rates of immigrant households in Germany between 1996 to 2005 and 2000 to 2012 respectively using a...
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This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
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Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...
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economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany.We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by …
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economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany. We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by …
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