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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs
Entorf, Horst - 2015
As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants …
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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Chapter 7. Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 315-374). 2015
We discuss some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union … formation. Marriage propensities are embedded in the cultural background of migrants and, hence, the capacity to form and … family formation is diverse but perhaps the key findings highlighted in this chapter are that outcomes depend greatly on the …
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
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...
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Roma integration in European labor markets : nuclei of evidence tell a grim story, but a veil of ignorance impedes policy efforts
Kahanec, Martin - 2014
The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe - as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle is at play: Substandard socio-economic outcomes reinforce each other; they fuel negative attitudes and perceptions, leading to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is...
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Enhancing the social integration of Roma in Slovak Republic
Bednarik, Michaela; Hidas, Slavomir; Machlica, Gabriel - 2019
Roma account for almost one-tenth of the population in the Slovak Republic. They live mostly excluded from the general population in concentrated settlements, separated neighbourhoods or ghettos. The majority live in poverty and face social exclusion in almost all aspects of everyday life. Only...
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Intermarriage and the economic success of immigrants : who is the driving factor - the native spouses or the immigrants themselves?
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2015
Marriages between immigrants and natives (intermarriages) are often associated with economic success and interpreted as an indicator of social integration. Intermarried immigrant men are on average better educated and work in better paid jobs than nonintermarried immigrant men. In this context,...
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Multigenerational living arrangements among migrants
Flake, Regina - 2012
Das Zusammenleben mehrerer Generationen einer Familie in einem Haushalt ist in Deutschland bei Migranten signifikant …There is a significantly higher prevalence of multigenerational living arrangements among migrants than among natives … in Germany which may be explained with migrants choosing this household structure in order to compensate for economic …
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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940
Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
historical or family-level discrimination …
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Chapter 11. Does Culture Matter?
Fernndez, Raquel - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 481-510). 2011
This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...
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