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Inter-ethnic marriage and partner satisfaction

Sinning, Mathias; Worner, Shane - 2010

This paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than nativeonly and foreign-only couples. --...

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Locus of control and savings

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2013

Dieses Papier analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen individueller Kontrollüberzeugung ("locus of control") und Sparverhalten in Form von Vermögensakkumulation, Sparraten und Portfolio-Entscheidungen. Locus of control is ein psychologisches Konzept, welches die individuelle Überzeugung über...

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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

a moderate earnings assimilation process for some immigrant groups. However, due to variations in the economic … this background, this paper employs a double cohort model to revisit the existing evidence on earnings assimilation … processes of immigrants to Germany. In line with this literature, no evidence for a robust assimilation process for immigrants …

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Demographics and factor flows : a political economy approach

Calahorrano, Lena; Meulen, Philipp an de - 2011

We investigate the effect of population aging on international factor flows in a political-economy framework. Political barriers to immigration in developed countries and insecure property rights in developing countries impede factor flows. Taking into account different generations' conflicting...

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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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Computational economic modeling of migration

Klabunde, Anna - 2014

In this paper an agent-based model of endogenously evolving migrant networks is developed to identify the determinants of migration and return decisions. Individuals are connected by links, the strength of which declines over time and distance. Methodologically, this paper combines...

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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa

Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021

Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, this study investigates the extent to which soil moisture anomalies drive international migration decisions within the region...

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Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration

Lumpe, Claudia - 2017

This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country’s population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the...

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Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education?

Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Santos Silva, Manuel; Heidland, Tobias - 2015

Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of migrant parents can affect families’ time allocation...

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Migration response to an immigration shock : evidence from Russia's aggression against Ukraine

Zuchowski, David - 2023

Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in Poland. For identification, I use an instrumental variable...

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