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Utilitarian and ideological determinants of attitudes toward immigration : Germany before and after the "refugee crisis"
Welsch, Heinz - 2019
Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967243
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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022
examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285855
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Short-term macroeconomic evaluation of the German minimum wage with a VAR/VECM
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Logeay, Camille - 2019 - Version: May 2019
are performed to assess the validity of the results. Overall, small positive price effects, significant positive wage … effects, and positive employment effects although not robustly estimated in their magnitude are found. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007295
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Are happier people better citizens?
Guven, Cahit - 2009
This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635321
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No man is an island : trust, trustworthiness, and social capital among Syrian refugees in Germany
El Bialy, Nora; Fraile Aranda, Elisa; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2021
We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the … refugees' involvement in two different forms of social networking (forming bonding ties with other refugees vs. forming … bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement treatment conditions in which Syrian refugees play a trust game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424259
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The impact of natives' attitudes towards immigrants on their integration in the host country
Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2022
-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198133
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Migrants at school: educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269090
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Migrants at School : Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159513
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Migrants at school : educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846006
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Adolescent Environment and Noncognitive Skills
Gong, Jie; Lu, Yi; Xie, Huihua - 2016
Human skills are formed throughout multiple stages over the life cycle. Different types of skills are manipulable at different ages. This paper investigates whether and how the adolescent environment affects individuals' noncognitive skills. We exploit the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148551