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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a …
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adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain-referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had arrived … is unlikely to be suitable for accessing newly arrived migrants. However, in the absence of registers which can capture …
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Over the last decade the locus of policy-making towards asylum seekers and refugees has shifted away from national governments and towards the EU as the Common European Asylum Policy has developed. Most of the focus has been on the harmonisation of policies relating to border control, the...
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We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
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