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Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender
Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-20
, the findings of the paper, where special attention is paid to migrants, offer a better understanding on the intergenera …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242302
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Does migration motive matter for migrants' employment outcomes? : the case of Belgium
Lens, Dries; Marx, Ive; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018
Belgian LFS Ad Hoc Module on the labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants, we compare the … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and … refugees with those of the native-born. In line with previous studies, we establish that refugees and family reunion migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937525
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034744
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331886
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a … new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272279
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272287
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a … new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272328
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Microeconometric Analyses on Economic Consequences of Selective Migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698351
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Explaining the labour market outcomes of first, second and third generation immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272645
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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466440