 Employment chances of immigrants and their children in Germany: does sense of personal control matter?IZA Journal of Migration and Development, 2016, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-25 Abstract: Abstract Labour market integration is a social process suggesting that personality traits are relevant. This paper explores whether immigrants with a higher belief in their ability to control outcomes tend to be more likely to be employed. This trait is known in psychology as the locus of control (LOC). I employ a model framework that allows LOC to depend on a set of observable determining variables. Results indicate that sense of personal control is correlated with employment probability and that there is a risk that immigrants and their children tend to have a more externalized LOC. Mother’s education is a key factor correlated with the sense of personal control. Keywords: Personality; Labour market; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:izamig:v:5:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1186_s40176-016-0064-0 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1186/s40176-016-0064-0 Access Statistics for this article IZA Journal of Migration and Development is currently edited by Amelie F. Constant, Denis Fougère and Tommaso Colussi More articles in IZA Journal of Migration and Development from Springer, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) |
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