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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764584
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765849
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765852
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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg
Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich "weiche" Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765854
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Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?:
de Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in … households, labor is their main productive asset. Access to opportunities in distant labor markets through migration can increase … the earning potential of members of such households (Harris and Todaro 1970). Furthermore, if migration takes place as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762102
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Insurance motives to remit: Evidence from a matched sample of Ethiopian internal migrants
de Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie; Woldehanna, Tassew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762104
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Does internal migration improve overall well-being in Ethiopia?:
de Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie; Woldehanna, Tassew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Ethiopia to examine the welfare impacts of internal migration. Using a number of techniques and various objective and … subjective measures, we measure the impacts of migration on the welfare of migrants versus non-migrants. We find large gains to … migration suggest that barriers exist, even within countries such as Ethiopia, against the free movement of people to places …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762108
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Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128956
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Environmental Migrants: A Myth?:
Maystadt, Jean-François; Mueller, Valerie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Environmental migration has been the subject of lively debate in recent years. The conundrum over why experts’ global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132770
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Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133273