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The effect of schooling on parental integration

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2024 - This version: December 16, 2024

Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents’ integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...

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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation challenges when migrations are temporary. As in an overwhelming share of the … problem becomes inherently dynamic and requires a more structural approach to estimation, which we briefly discuss. …

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Justice delayed is assimilation denied : rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...

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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia

Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024

We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which … estimate a stochastic growth model with endogenous immigration and training to account for these facts and study macroeconomic … performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …

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Renewed momentum in the German housing market : boom or bubble?

Chen, Xi; Funke, Michael - 2013

The renewed momentum in the German housing market has led to concerns that Germany is vulnerable to asset price shocks. In this paper, we apply recently developed recursive unit root tests to detect the beginning and the end of potential speculative bubbles in Germany over the sample period...

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High and low activity spells in housing markets

Smith, Eric - 2015

This paper demonstrates the way in which stock-flow matching with endogenous seller entry generates hot and cold spells in house sales. Potential sellers know the number of bidders remaining from the last house sale. If two or more bidders remain, the seller obtains the gains to trade through...

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Intratemporal nonseparability between housing and nondurable consumption : evidence from reinvestment in housing stock

Khorunzhina, Natalia - 2019

Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by intratemporal nonseparability in households’...

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Understanding spatial house price dynamics in a housing boom

Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Syrichas, Nicolas - 2024

We examine the evolution of spatial house price dispersion during Germany’s recent housing boom. Using a dataset of sales listings, we find that house price dispersion has significantly increased, which is driven entirely by rising price variation across postal codes. We show that both price...

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Education expansion, college choice and labour market success

Braccioli, Federica; Ghinetti, Paolo; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2023

We study the choice of acquiring STEM and non-STEM college education using variation induced by the proximity to universities offering different types of programs. We adopt a novel methodology allowing the identification of the distribution of response types and treatment effects in a multiple...

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