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Who goes on disability when times are tough? : the role of social costs of take-up among immigrants

Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019

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Discrimination and assimilation at school

Eguia, Jon X. - In: Journal of public economics 156 (2017), pp. 48-58

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Who goes on disability when times are tough? : the role of social costs of take-up among immigrants

Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up tends to increase during recessions. We exploit variation across immigrant groups in the non-pecuniary costs of participating in SSDI to examine the role that costs play in applicant decisions across the business cycle. We show that immigrants...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974382

Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants : How Heterogeneous are They Really?

Schurer, Stefanie - 2008

The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...

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Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany : The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Fertig, Michael; Schurer, Stefanie - 2008

Heterogeneity in the ethnic composition of Germany's immigrant population renders general conclusions on the degree of economic integration difficult. Using a rich longitudinal data-set, this paper tests for differences in economic assimilation profiles of four entry cohorts of foreign-born...

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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013

This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...

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Earnings assimilation of immigrants in Germany : the importance of heterogeneity and attrition bias

Fertig, Michael; Schurer, Stefanie - 2007

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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

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Migrating natives and foreign immigration : is there a preference for ethnic residential homogeneity?

Andersson, Henrik; Berg, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz - 2018

In this paper we investigate the migration behavior of the native population following foreign (refugee) immigration … immigration as captured by refugee shocks. We find no evidence of neither native flight nor native avoidance when studying the … group, we find that all natives, irrespective of their parents' foreign background, react similarly to increased immigration …

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