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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?
Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014
We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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Migrants, health, and happiness : evidence that health assessments travel with migrants and predict well-being
Ljunge, Martin - 2016
Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach provides a clear direction of causality from social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436669
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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants : Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?
Angelini, Viola - 2014
We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053704
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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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The Effects of International Migration on Well-Being of Natives and Immigrants : Evidence from Germany, Switzerland and the UK
Giovanis, Eleftherios - 2023
, little is known about the impact of migration on migrants’ well-being. In this study, we aim to investigate the effect of net …-generation migrants. The results are mixed and vary by country. In particular, we find a positive impact of migration on both native’s and … migrants’ well-being in Germany, while a negative effect on life satisfaction of Swiss natives is revealed. Immigrants in …
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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144386
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Parametric and semiparametric estimation in models with misclassified categorical dependent variables
Dustmann, Christian; Soest, Arthur van - 2000
We consider both a parametric and a semiparametric method to account for classification errors on the dependent variable in an ordered response model. The methods are applied to the analysis of self-reported speaking fluency of male immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which...
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Ethnic identity : a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-11
We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...
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Ethnosizing immigrants: a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2014
Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration, and ethnic selfidentification, the method classifies...
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