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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany : conference paper
Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013
strongest in the first generation and becomes weaker for generation 1.5 (migrants arriving as children) and the second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340561
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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper
Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014
This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481252
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany ; conference paper
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338940
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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test scores and measures of personality (locus of control,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336812
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Are 12 years of schooling sufficient for preparation for tertiary education? : evidence from the reform of secondary school duration in Germany ; conference paper
Meyer, Tobias; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014 - This version: February 28, 2014
An important education reform in Germany reduced the duration of university preparatory schooling from 13 to 12 years, but left the curriculum unchanged. In the state of Saxony-Anhalt the reform was completed in 2007 with a double cohort of graduates, providing a natural experiment. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481255
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Birthright citizenship and education : do immigrant children need a passport to thrive? ; conference paper
Sajons, Christoph; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2014 - First version: February, 1st, 2014, Preliminary results
This paper evaluates the effect of becoming citizen of the host-country at birth on educational outcomes of immigrant children in Germany. We exploit the introduction of birthright citizenship for newborn children in Germany starting on the 1st of January, 2000, to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486673
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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success? ; conference paper
Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014
Does granting citizenship at birth help immigrant children to integrate in the host country's educational system and thus, to promote their educational success? Our identification strategy is based on a reform of the German naturalization law in 2000. We exploit this natural experiment and use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489299
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Do immigrants take or create residents jobs? : quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland ; conference paper
Basten, Christoph; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013 - This version: May 2013
We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland …, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different … immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342243
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Student assessment and grade retention : evidence from a natural experiment ; conference paper
Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - 2014
In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is measured by grade retention rates. We take advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488494