In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized "in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday" than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...

Estimating the effect of 'ethnic capital' on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on...

cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Competing interests -- About IZA -- Editorial board -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I: Program evaluation -- SECTION II: Behavioral and personnel economics -- SECTION III: Migration -- SECTION IV: Institutions -- SECTION V: Transition and emerging economies --...

We provide laboratory evidence that people neglect skewness resulting from compound shocks. In an investment experiment involving an asset with random geometric price growth, we determine bounds on the participants' subjective medians of the asset's final price. The evidence shows a strong bias...

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...