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  • Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 1 / 2001

    Income Composition and Redistribution in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation

    This paper deals with the relative economic performance of immigrants compared to the native born population in Germany. We compare pre and post-government income, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1995 to 1997. We categorize six population subgroups by the ethnicity of the adult household members: native-born West Germans, East Germans, "pure" Aussiedler (ethnic German immigrants), ...

    2001| Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick
  • Weekly Report 30 / 2009

    Poor Marks for Germany's Isolationist Policy

    The free movement of workers within the European Union does not place a burden on labor markets or social services. This is the conclusion of a recent study on the development and effects of east-to-west migration in the wake of EU enlargement in 2004 and 2007. In this light, Germany's restrictive immigration policy received poor marks. Recent measures-such as Germany's labor migration regulation law, ...

    2009| Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

    This article 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.

    In: Applied Economics Letters 16 (2009), 15, S. 1581-1586 | Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • SOEPpapers 92 / 2008

    Bringing Home the Money: Xenophobia and Remittances: The Case of Germany

    The determinants of migrants' remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In contrast to previous studies we analyze the motives for remittances not only for foreigners but also for the broader group of individuals with a personal migration background. Major findings are: First, concerns about xenophobia lead to higher remittances. Second, income and gender has ...

    2008| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
  • Diskussionspapiere 800 / 2008

    Gender, Migration, Remittances: Evidence from Germany

    Gender-specific determinants of remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In 2007, about 7.3 million foreigners were living in Germany. While the total number of foreigners has decreased over the last decade, female migration to Germany has increased. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany, although the proportion varies significantly by country ...

    2008| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
  • SOEPpapers 113 / 2008

    Development of Wage Inequality for Natives and Immigrants in Germany: Evidence from Quantile Regression and Decomposition

    To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the German socio-economic panel for the period 1984-2006. I find a higher inequality between skill groups for ...

    2008| Heiko Peters
  • Externe Monographien

    Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe

    Bonn: IZA, 2008, 37 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 3595)
    | Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • SOEPpapers 57 / 2007

    Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

    Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeownership decision, using a two-dimensional model of ethnic identity ...

    2007| Amelie Constant, Rowan Roberts, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

    This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavours of immigrants' and natives in Germany, concentrating on Turks, Germany's largest immigrant group and one under-studied in the literature. Self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70 per cent of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We use data from the German Socio-economic Panel to study patterns of self-employment. First, we identify ...

    In: International Migration 45 (2007), 4, S. 71-100 | Amelie Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • SOEPpapers 63 / 2007

    Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

    This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and exclusion, confirming much of the economic literature examining the economic assimilation of immigrants ...

    2007| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Mathias Sinning
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