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and 2000 show significant differences in the assimilation processes between nationalities. We examine the sources of wage … assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … percent in 2008. According to the decomposition results this wage assimilation of 10 percentage points can almost completely …
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whether assimilation or disruption effects dominate immigrants' fertility after migration. We find evidence in favor of the … assimilation model according to which immigrant fertility converges to native levels over time. In addition, we confirm the …
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The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...
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major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380588
most preferred host countries for immigration. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find … that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the 2015 … European Refugee Crisis. We attribute the recent widening to decreased assimilation rates of new immigrants caused by a reduced …
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a yearly assimilation rate of 2.3 percent. Due to a changing immigration pattern the cohort quality is declining. … immigration. In addition, the pattern of immigration changed markedly during the past decades. Therefore we use the latest data of … perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as …
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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using …
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remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
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