Klaus F Zimmermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 281326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Klaus F Zimmermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Klaus F |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmermann |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMANN K F |
| AFFILIATIONS | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2804-5692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The ‘Healthy Migrant Effect’ and Ageing: Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy of the Migrant and Native-born Populations in Australia
How health status changes as migrants age and become to their host country remains underexplored. This study investigates two key indicators—life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE)—among migrants in Australia using nationally representative secondary data, including census-based Estimated Resident Population, 1% Census sample, and mortality statistics. LE refers to the average number of years a person is expected to live, while HLE…
Comment on “Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden”
Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Well‐Being in China
A prominent gender stereotype claims that “boys are better at learning mathematics than girls.” Confronted with such a parental attitude, how does this affect the well‐being of 11‐ to 18‐year‐old students in Chinese middle schools? Although well‐being has often been shown to be not much gender‐diverse, the intergenerational consequences of such stereotypes are not well studied. Expecting too much from boys and too little from girls might damage s…
Estimating the Wage Premia of Refugee Immigrants: Lessons from Sweden
This article examines the wage earnings of refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onward, approximately 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum are compared to a matched sample of native-born workers. Employing recentered influence function (RIF) quantile regressions to wage earnings for the period 2011-2015, the occupational-task-based Oaxaca-Blinder decomp…
Changing impact of Covid-19 on life expectancy 2019–2023 and its decomposition: Findings from 27 countries
The pandemic has caused substantial short-term mortality variations during 2019-2023 in the 27 countries studied. Although most of the 27 countries experienced increased life expectancy after 2022, life expectancy in 22 countries still has not entirely regained its pre-pandemic level by May 2023. Threats of COVID-19 are more prominent for older adults and men, but special attention is needed for women aged 85+ years
Nativity in the healthy migrant effect: Evidence from Australia
Migrant health constitutes an important public health issue; however, variations in the 'healthy migrant effect' among migrants of different nativity are not adequately understood. To fill this gap, this study examines the life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE) of the Australian-born population and eight major migrant groups in Australia for 2006, 2011 and 2016. The results show that compared with the Australian-born population, t…
Decomposing the differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives: The ‘healthy migrant effect’ and its age variations in Australia
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country
Our large-scale experiment with 542 families from rural Bangladesh finds substantial intergenerational persistence of economic preferences. Both mothers' and fathers' risk, time, and social preferences are significantly (and largely to the same degree) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socioeconomic background. We discuss possible transmission channels and are the fi…
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics
Inter‐country distancing, globalisation and the coronavirus pandemic
Originating in China, the coronavirus has reached the world at different speeds and levels of strength. This paper provides an initial understanding of some driving factors and their consequences. Since transmission requires people, the human factor behind globalisation is essential. Globalisation, a major force behind global well‐being and equality, is highly associated with this factor. The analysis investigates the impact globalisation has on …
Public employment decline in developing countries in the 21st century: The role of globalization
Pastorenstücke‘ und ‚Besucherordnung‘ – eine lex sacra aus dem Heiligtum des Zeus Labraundos von Patara
Home Sweet Home: Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year variation for identi cation of the effect and panel data to con- trol for migrants observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evi…
Three decades of publishing research in population economics
The Journal of Population Economics is celebrating its 30th birthday. When the first issue was published, population economics was non-existent as a field. Hence, the aim has been to provide a high-quality outlet to publishing excellent theoretical and applied research in all areas of population economics. The article summarizes key developments in the Journal’s editorial process, thematic orientation, international reach, and successes. Furtherm…
Demographic dynamics and long-run development: Insights for the secular stagnation debate
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Remittances and relative concerns in rural China
A Road Map to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries
Young people have been among those most affected by the recent financial crisis. Vocational education and training (VET) is often viewed as the silver bullet for the youth joblessness problem. In this article, the authors provide a better understanding of VET in industrialized countries, proposing a typology with three types of vocational systems: 1) vocational and technical schools, 2) formal apprenticeships, and 3) dual apprenticeship systems t…
How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a moreefficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages,alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. Thepaper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advancedeconomies under standard conditions. This is discussed and theoretically derived in acore model, and empirically supported usi…
Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. We jointly examine male native‐migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time duration models. Compared to natives, unemployed male migrant workers do not find less stable positions, but they need mo…
Arbeit in Einer Alternden Gesellschaft: Problembereiche und Entwicklungstendenzen der Erwerbsbeteiligung Älterer
International Handbook on the Economics of Migration
Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China
The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis
This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and speak the language well. Once out-migrated, th…
Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
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 adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity by reducing immigrants' risk aversion and explains the systematic varia…
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 socioeconomic 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 homeowner-ship decision, using a two-dimensional composite index of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both…
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges that attachments to both the country of origin and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration, and marginalization. We analyze the determinants of ethnic self-identification in this process usi…
Native wage impacts of foreign labor: A random effects panel analysis
Pseudo-R2's in the ordinal probit model
(1992). Pseudo‐R 2’s in the ordinal probit model. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 333-342
Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis
This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and speak the language well. Once out-migrated, th…
Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. We jointly examine male native‐migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time duration models. Compared to natives, unemployed male migrant workers do not find less stable positions, but they need mo…
International Handbook on the Economics of Migration
The economics of migrant ethnicity
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country
Our large-scale experiment with 542 families from rural Bangladesh finds substantial intergenerational persistence of economic preferences. Both mothers' and fathers' risk, time, and social preferences are significantly (and largely to the same degree) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socioeconomic background. We discuss possible transmission channels and are the fi…
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 the characteristics of the self‐employed i…
Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming unemployed, namely the unskilled, also exhibit low levels of overtime work. Those who work…
Fiscal restraint and the political economy of EMU
Demographic dynamics and long-run development: Insights for the secular stagnation debate
A Road Map to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries
Young people have been among those most affected by the recent financial crisis. Vocational education and training (VET) is often viewed as the silver bullet for the youth joblessness problem. In this article, the authors provide a better understanding of VET in industrialized countries, proposing a typology with three types of vocational systems: 1) vocational and technical schools, 2) formal apprenticeships, and 3) dual apprenticeship systems t…
Network Migration of Ethnic Germans
Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Selection and Performance
The labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany is analyzed in this article. While previous work has compared wages and characteristics of migrants to natives only, this study also matches the data set with an equivalent survey from the sending country. The findings show that Portuguese migrants as a whole are negatively selected, with the exception of blue-collar workers, the largest group among the movers. The finding that Portugu…
Network Migration of Ethnic Germans
This study has argued that network migration is central to actual migratory movements, which suggests that its determinants should be carefully investigated. The analysis demonstrates that the network behavior of ethnic Germans can be explained, to a large degree, by observable characteristics. Two crucial variables were investigated, namely the connections to friends from the country of origin and the settlement close to relatives and friends. E…
Ageing and the labor market: Age structure, cohort size and unemployment
Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe
Towards a European migration policy
Decomposing the differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives: The ‘healthy migrant effect’ and its age variations in Australia
Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
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 adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity by reducing immigrants' risk aversion and explains the systematic varia…
The determinants of structural changes in public budgets: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the Federal Republic of Germany
Since there is no generally accepted and satisfactory theory that can explain structural changes in public budgets over time, this article focuses on the determinants of the budget structure and its changes over time. Thus, it would already be an improvement in the development of a complex and coherent theory of budgetary structures and its changes if initially appropriate variables could be identified which could explain in the short, intermedia…
César Vallejo: Actas del Coloquio Internacional Freie Universität Berlin 7.-9. Junio 1979
Asymptotic Sampling Theory of Tau b: Comment
Goodman and Kruskal (1972) developed the asymptotic sampling theory for the association measure Tau b. Their formula has been modified by Bishop, Fienberg, and Holland (1978) and generalized for the partial analog by Gray and Williams (1981). Unfortunately, both modifications are incorrect, which is shown in this article. Also, the correct formula for the variance of the partial Tau b is given
A Monthly Dynamic Consumer Expenditure System for Germany with Different Kinds of Households
Michael R. Veall, Klaus F. Zimmermann, A Monthly Dynamic Consumer Expenditure System for Germany with Different Kinds of Households, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 68, No. 2 (May, 1986), pp. 256-264
The determinants of structural changes in public budgets: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the Federal Republic of Germany
Since there is no generally accepted and satisfactory theory that can explain structural changes in public budgets over time, this article focuses on the determinants of the budget structure and its changes over time. Thus, it would already be an improvement in the development of a complex and coherent theory of budgetary structures and its changes if initially appropriate variables could be identified which could explain in the short, intermedia…
Probleme und Chancen demographischer Entwicklung in der dritten Welt
Wurzeln der modernen ökonomischen Bevölkerungstheorie in der deutschen Forschung um 1900/Roots of Modern Population Economics in the German Literature Around 1900
Demographic Change and Economic Development
Work Characteristics, Firm Size and Wages
firm size-wage differentials, earnings functions, compulsory wage differentials, work characteristics
Ageing and the labor market: Age structure, cohort size and unemployment
Pseudo-R2's in the ordinal probit model
(1992). Pseudo‐R 2’s in the ordinal probit model. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 333-342
Economic Theory of Optimal Population
Towards a European migration policy
Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe
The population of the European Community will fall by 2% by the year 2025. Between 1960 and 1990, it grew by 17%. This contrast reflects the dramatic growth of the population of pensioners in the total population, and also the rapid ageing of the Community's working population. In this volume, based on a CEPR conference held in Munich in April 1992, leading economists in the field assess demographic and labour market developments in Western and E…
Native wage impacts of foreign labor: A random effects panel analysis
Pennies from heaven: Entry fees to a socialist ?paradise
Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe
Journal Article Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe Get access Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe. Edited by Johnson (Paul) and (KLAUS F.) Zimmermann. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii + 294. £35.00 hardback, US $59.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 44398 9.)Age, Work and Social Security. Edited by (A. B.) ATkinson and Rein (Martin). (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xxiii + 374. £47.50 hardback. ISBN 0 333 567…
Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe
Tackling the European Migration Problem
A fortress Europe immigration policy is currently observed throughout the European Union. The European migration problem seems to be that, in the face of high and persistent unemployment rates, additional immigration implies further unemployment. This might not be true if immigration helps to erode institutional constraints and enhances labor market flexibility, a point that is seen of particular virtue in the European setting. The paper also arg…
Network Migration of Ethnic Germans
This study has argued that network migration is central to actual migratory movements, which suggests that its determinants should be carefully investigated. The analysis demonstrates that the network behavior of ethnic Germans can be explained, to a large degree, by observable characteristics. Two crucial variables were investigated, namely the connections to friends from the country of origin and the settlement close to relatives and friends. E…
Network Migration of Ethnic Germans
Fiscal restraint and the political economy of EMU
Migration: The Controversies and the Evidence
This 1999 volume takes a critical look at the current divide over immigration policies. It hopes to shed light on the debate by bringing together papers that investigate the link between trade and factor mobility, particularly labour migration, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It examines the substitutability between trade and migration, the impact of regional integration on the location of economic activity, the role of public goods …
Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming unemployed, namely the unskilled, also exhibit low levels of overtime work. Those who work…
Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
This Discussion Paper is issued within the framework of IZA's research area Mobility
Aussiedler seit 1989 - Bilanz und Perspektiven
Economics (51 works) · Political science (34 works) · Demographic economics (30 works) · Sociology (30 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (27 works) · Geography (25 works) · Immigration (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Labour economics (17 works) · Population (17 works)