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The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation (or Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?)
Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2021
market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well … immigrants profit slightly. This is due to above average non-market income of "pure" immigrants. However, East Germans are still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321301
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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872706
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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858734
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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336868
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Access to Citizenship and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants
Gathmann, Christina - 2017
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and earnings than natives. We analyze whether a more liberal citizenship policy improves the economic assimilation of immigrants in the host country. The empirical analysis relies on two reforms which created exogenous variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955629
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Are we there yet? : intergenerational mobility and economic assimilation of second-generation immigrants in Estonia
Kivi, Laura Helena; Järve, Janno; Anspal, Sten; … - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 2, pp. 157-182
This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia …. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent income rank is associated with on average 0.2 percentile increase in … child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651277
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Self-Employment and Earnings Among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321257
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283172
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation siblings
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342868
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New evidence on son preference among immigrant households in the United States
Duan, Huiqiong; Hicks, Daniel L. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/14, pp. 1-28
This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant populations in the United States using Census and American Community Survey data. We first confirm the existing evidence of son preference among immigrant populations from South East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303251