immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …

employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study … of active labor market policies. For immigrants having stayed more than 4 years in Germany, however, we do not find a …

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … Germany, using novel German administrative data. Applying proportional hazard models, our estimates generally support the …

We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of … personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …

We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of … personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …

We show that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The … facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism that are important … mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that children from families with …

the stated LOC is biased during unemployment but the underlying personality trait itself is not affected. … over the life course. While absolute stability has been generally rejected, the extent to which LOC and thus personality … changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC …

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …

occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an instrumental variables approach that exploits young children …