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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331886
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 10, pp. 1-24
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is … present policies continue within the European Union (EU) and its member states. In the vibrant scenario, full employment is … labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409587
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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … by more labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331412
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Die Erwerbsgesellschaft der Zukunft bietet neben neuen Risiken und neuer Unübersichtlichkeit vor allem vielfältige neue Chancen. Um sie bestmöglich zu nutzen, brauchen Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik ein neues Denken und Handeln, das die Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel...
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German Job Mobility and Wages
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework … framework. Firm tenure is no relevant determinant of earnings. Past mobility and sectoral and regional factors determine … individual mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262252
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272279
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272328
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Unemployment and transitions in the Turkish labor market: evidence from individual level data
Taşçi, H. Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2005
Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) panel data of 2000 and 2001. We provide two types of evidence. First, we compute annual … transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … assumptions by gender and rural-urban residence and marital status. Transition probabilities are used to analyze the differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276854
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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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