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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Many migrations are temporary - a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic … of migrant behavior. We propose a general theoretical framework for modeling temporary migration decisions, based on …
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This paper studies the determinants of return migration by applying the Cox hazard model to longitudinal micro data … life cycle model of Migration Economics and a strong return probability decreasing effect of labor market integration and …
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Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic … of migrant behavior. We propose a general theoretical framework for modeling temporary migration decisions, based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185776
This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
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Mit der Pilotstudie „Leben außerhalb Deutschlands“ beschreitet die Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) absolutes methodisches Neuland, indem versucht wird, die Adressen ausgewanderter Teilnehmer des deutschen Haushaltspanels SOEP im Ausland zu recherchieren und die...
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understanding of migration as a fundamentally open-ended process - open up new empirical perspectives for migration research. …
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entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than … likely to have moved or migrated over a 3-period than those in continuous paid employment. Fourthly, in contrast to the …
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embeddedness of self-employment. It examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are "rooted" in place and also whether those who … are more rooted in place are more likely to enter self-employment. The paper draws on large-scale panel data covering the … more likely to become self-employed. However, in contrast to expectations drawn from previous literature, flows into self-employment …
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inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of … Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after migration … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …
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