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Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

, gender, education, religion, etc.) on their ethnic identity using the ethnosizer. This note presents a basic theoretical …

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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. …

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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in...

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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants

Palo, Domenico de; Faini, Riccardo; Venturini, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Policy makers in migrant-receiving countries must often strike a delicate balance between economic needs, that would dictate a substantial increase in the number of foreign workers, and political and electoral imperatives, that typically result in highly restrictive immigration policies....

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Dual Citizenship Rights: Do They Make More and Better Citizens?

Mazzolari, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates and...

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