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Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants : The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture

Dumludag, Devrim - 2015

This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...

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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … of labour migrants and their partners. The improvement is largely due to an improvement in educational attainment and …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be …

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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …

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Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2010

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the … substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration … duration decreases in ppp. Holding individual immigrant characteristics constant, immigrants from poorer source countries have …

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Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks : The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2013

Turks from Bulgaria into Turkey in 1989. In some locations, the rise in the labor force due to this inflow of repatriates … locations and brings our study closer to an ideal natural experiment. Using a reservoir of 342 cities and towns in Turkey with …

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Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market : A Field Experiment

Kaas, Leo - 2015

This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 …

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Delaying the Bell : The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile

Kruger, Diana I. - 2010

We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using...

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Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration : Evidence Around the Great Recession

Mundra, Kusum - 2016

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

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The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Andrén, Thomas - 2021

Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households. This is done within the framework of a time-stationary dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity. Three different types of persistence are...

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Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country : North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2011

skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The …This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann …

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