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Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2011
Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated … areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same country of origin as the surveyed person and segregated areas where … most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720396
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240233
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration?: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896222
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The geographic reach of knowledge spillovers : a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data
Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2019
This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317611
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264226
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2009
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions andinterregional migration are … reduceswages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by auniform unemployment compensation, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312101
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2009
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902056
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Chapter Three. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 95-199). 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025585
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Education, Unemployment and Migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405804