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Economic and Social Perspectives of Immigrant Children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as improvements in day care provision for children....

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How Much Language is Enough? Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany

DeVoretz, Don J.; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christiane - 2002

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2003

identical countries induces a relocation of firms which increases with the level of economic integration as measured by trade … the level of integration is shown to be bell-shaped. …

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Social deprivation and exclusion of immigrants in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007

This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...

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The changing face of Chinese immigrants in Canada

Guo, Shibao; DeVoretz, Don J. - 2007

This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer a homogeneous group from the rural areas of...

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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001

Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2008

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...

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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants: 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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TIPping the scales towards greater employment chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants based on random program assignment

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Nekby, Lena - 2009

A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...

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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … host country before child birth matters, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited …. Inherited integration has a particularly strong impact on the marriage patterns of females. …

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