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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272279
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272328
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006
attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation. -- risk attitudes ; ethnicity ; native-migrant differences … ; gender differences ; second-generation effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289886
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Intergenerational returns to migration? : comparing educational performance on both sides of the German border
Luthra, Renee - 2010
This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702309
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Gender gap dynamics among refugees and recent immigrants : different start, similar patterns?
Kosyakova, Yuliya; Salikutluk, Zerrin - 2023
literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany …) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results … uncover narrow initial gender differences among refugees that grow over time and a reversed pattern among other immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438525
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Intergenerational returns to migration? Comparing educational performance on both sides of the German border
Luthra, Renee Reichl - 2010
This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288921
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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The Effect of Communism on People's Attitudes Toward Immigration
Carl, Matthew - 2018
Does living in a communist regime make a person more concerned about immigration? This paper argues conceptually and demonstrates empirically that people’s attitudes toward immigration are affected by their country's politico-economic legacy. Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111554
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Jobcenters' strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers : a comparative analysis based on PASS survey data
Lehweß-Litzmann, René; Söhn, Janina - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper comparatively analyzes strategies of German Jobcenters to bring native and immigrant job seekers into employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) from year 2015...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368686
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326