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immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
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collective action in Western Europe. We emphasise the role of group identity based individual behaviour in organising collective … individuals feel an imperative to act on the basis of their Muslim identity, something to which different individuals will attach … varying degrees of salience, depending on how they place their Muslim identity based actions in the scheme of their multiple …
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and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a …
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tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeownership decision, using a … two-dimensional model of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both origin and host cultures. The evidence …
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possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration and marginalization …
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The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country …. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following …-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization …
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significantly affected by ethnicity; namely language and nationality. Russian speakers, as opposed to Ukrainian speakers, were …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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