A Decomposition Analysis of Cigarette Consumption Differences between Male Turkish Immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012

Rui Dang

No 819, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the number of cigarettes consumed daily between Turkish immigrants and Germans into a component reflecting differences in observed socio-economic characteristics and a component reflecting unobserved smoking behavior. Our results reveal that more than 50% of the differences in cigarette consumption between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans is attributable to observable characteristics.

Keywords: integration, migration, and transnationalization; health and care; demography and population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I14 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 p.
Date: 2016
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Working Paper: A decomposition analysis of cigarette consumption differences between male Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012 (2016)
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