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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
the degree of assimilation in Germany, which is consistent with a switch of migrants' reference point from home countries …This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229293
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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548724
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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346646
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Home sweet home? : Macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 52 (2017) 2, pp. 351-373
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685955
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Ethnic diversity and well-being
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado; … - 2016
-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452237
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The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives
Akay, Alpaslan - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104941
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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287659
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Divided we stand : immigration attitudes, identity, and subjective well-being
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2017
above. A 1-standard-deviation (SD) increase in IF is associated with an increase in 11-point life satisfaction (LS) by 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724593
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Content or Regret? Macroeconomic Volatilities in Home Country and the Well-Being of Migrants across Nations
Khan, Saima - 2023
connected to one single economy. Migrants provide an interesting case study as they are simultaneously connected to two … economies. This study draws attention to the implications of home macroeconomic conditions on the well-being of migrants abroad … and shows that home macroeconomic conditions, although far from the migrants’ destination, do in fact have strong effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357501
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Positional concerns through the life cycle : evidence from subjective well-being data and survey experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2012
This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530695