Ifo Institute, Germany, FBK-IRVAPP, Italy, and IZA, Germany
IZA World of Labor role
Author
Current position
Economist, Ifo Center for Industrial Organisation and New Technologies
Research interest
Applied microeconomics, policy evaluation, migration, education, and new technologies
Past positions
Research Fellow, Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (FBK-IRVAPP), 2013–2016; Resident Research Affiliate, IZA, Germany, 2011–2013; Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Germany, 2009–2011
Qualifications
PhD Economics, Free University of Berlin, 2013
Selected publications
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“The 9/11 conservative shift.” Economics Letters 135 (2015): 80–84.
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“Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants.” Journal of Population Economics 28:4 (2015): 965–1004.
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“Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap.” International Migration Review 49:3 (2015): 757–789 (with A. Krause and U. Rinne).
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“Evidence and persistence of education inequality in an early-tracking system—The German case.” Scuola Democratica 2 (2014) (with A. Krause).
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“Ethnic diversity and labor market success” (Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg). Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labor Market Research 44:1/2 (2011): 81–89 (with U. Rinne and K. F. Zimmermann).
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Ethnic enclaves and immigrant economic integration
High-quality enclave networks encourage labor market success for newly arriving immigrants
Simone Schüller, August 2016Immigrants are typically not evenly distributed within host countries; instead they tend to cluster in particular neighborhoods. But does clustering in ethnic enclaves help explain the persistent differences in employment rates and earnings between immigrants and the native population? Empirical studies consistently find that residing in an enclave can increase earnings. While it is still ambiguous whether mainly low-skilled immigrants benefit, or whether employment probabilities are affected, it is clear that effects are driven by enclave “quality” (in terms of income, education, and employment rates) rather than enclave size.MoreLess