Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

Die Gesellschaft wandelt sich zu einer dienstleistenden Informationsgesellschaft. Die Ökonomie sprengt mit Hilfe der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung und digitalisierten Kommunikation die Grenzen des Nationalstaates. Angesichts dessen muß sich der Staat modernisieren. Der Sozialstaat, die...