Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

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  • Occupational Choice Across Generations

    In: Applied Economics Quarterly 49 (2003), 4, 299-317 | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

    Berlin: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), 2004,
    (DIW Discussion Paper No. 455)
    | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

    This paper uses a state of the art three-stage estimation technique to identify the determinants of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany. Their making is surprisingly alike. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 (GSOEP) release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human capital. But this choice has a very strong intergenerational ...

    In: Small Business Economics 26 (2006), 3, 279-300 | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Integration of Immigrants: Ethnic Identity Affects Economic Success

    Washington, D.C.: DIW DC, 2008,
    (DIW DC Annual Report 2007)
    | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior

    In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008), 2-3, 424-433 | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

    This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants and the natives, and provides an analysis in understanding their interactions. The issue of how immigrants ...

    Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2009,
    (IZA DP No. 4620)
    | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

    Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states – assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual information on language, culture, societal interaction, ...

    In: Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann , Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes (Volume 29 of the book series: Research in Labor Economics)
    Bingley: Emerald
    3-30
    | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away From the Host Country

    The importance of repeat and circular migration starts receiving rising recognition. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from the German guestworker experience. Beyond the myth, more than 60% of migrants in the sample from the guestworker countries living in Germany are indeed ...

    In: Population Research and Policy Review 30 (2011), 4, 495-515 | Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! Survey design and the analysis of satisfaction

    Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), 2008,
    (ISER Working Paper No. 2008-39)
    | Gabriella Conti, Stephen Pudney
  • A comparison of initial and early life course earnings of the German secondary education and training system

    In: Economics of Education Review 22 (2003), 1, 79-88 | Lynn Prince Cooke
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