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

). 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 …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the …

duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving …There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the … nature of unemployment in Turkey exhibits similarities to the unemployment in both the developed and the developing countries. …

There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of … unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of … effect of the local unemployment rate is large and negative. Duration dependence of the exit rate from unemployment is …

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

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 …

on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …

market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the … Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living in Germany. The first contribution of this paper is to quantify the low …