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Cultural Diversity - A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2015
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129925
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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques; Arribas-Bel, Daniel - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129939
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317959
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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895118
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Why to employ both migrants and natives? A study on task-specific substitutability
Haas, Anette; Schanne, Norbert; Lucht, Michael - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
This paper analyzes the performance of migrants on the German labor market and its dependence on the tasks performed on … their jobs. Recent work suggests quantifying the imperfect substitutability relationship between migrants and natives as a … measure for the hurdles migrants have to face. Our theoretical work adopts that migrant shares are very heterogeneous across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568470
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Migration, Relationship Capital and International Travel: Theory and Evidence
McCann, Philip; Poot, Jacques; Sanderson, Lynda - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008
country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967961
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Migration Paradigm Shifts and Transformation of Migrant Communities: The Case of Dutch Kiwis
Poot, Jacques; Pas, Suzan van der - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
largest source country of migrants from continental Europe to New Zealand, but by 2006 40 percent of the Netherlands born were … aged 65 or older. We find that there are three distinct cohorts of these migrants, each covering roughly 20 years of … arrivals: a large cohort of post-war migrants (those who arrived in the 1950s and 1960s), and much smaller cohorts of skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317944
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Ethnic Minority Immigrants and their Children in Britain
dustmann, christian; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006
the British Labour Force Survey over the period 1979-2005 to investigate educational attainment and economic behaviour of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967950
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Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation
Chiswick, Barry R.; DebBurman, Noyna - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2004
There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967953
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Immigrants in the British Labour Market
dustmann, christian; Fabbri, Francesca - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2005
The main objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive description of the economic outcomes and performance of Britain's immigrant communities today and over the last two decades. We distinguish between males and females and, where possible and meaningful, between immigrants of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967959