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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 features of the available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have …
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We use sibling variation in age at migration to study how early life exposure to the host country affects social … integration in adulthood. Building on a Swedish population-wide dataset, we show that early experiences affect the probability of … outcomes. Several results instead suggest that social integration is heavily affected by preferences or cultural identities …
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of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the …, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited. Inherited integration has a particularly …
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of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their …
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Surveying recently arrived immigrants in countries lacking a population register poses many challenges. We describe our adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain-referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had arrived in the UK within the previous 18 months....
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called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration …, and ethnic self-identification, the method classifies that individual into one of four states: assimilation, integration …
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This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a striking gender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing income redistribution, while majority of women...
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agents face heterogeneous migration costs. …
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migration but uses the help of cartelized smugglers. To overcome this trade-off we study how legalisation and repression can be … combined to eliminate human smuggling while controlling migration flows. This policy mix also has the advantage that the funds …
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