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This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...
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Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
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Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615362
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed … to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education inmoderating the negative …
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education inmoderating the negative …
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We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
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We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival … population. Our results suggest that immigration reduces the likelihood that residents report negative health outcomes. We show …
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