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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

-dimensional acculturation framework based on both strength of identity to the (ethnic) minority and to the (Swedish) majority culture. Results …

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Acculturation Identity and Educational Attainment

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both strength of identity to the (ethnic) minority and to the (Swedish …

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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …. Given the low labor force participation of females from ethnic minorities, the role of ethnicity in forming those attitudes … differences for time spent on childcare. The ethnicity effect is also heterogenous across different socioeconomic groups. Hence …

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Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between...

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Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood

Boschman, Sanne; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain neighbourhoods. A factor which has received little attention so far is that some residents will...

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Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Yang, Xiuna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

cases investigated, a minority ethnicity reduces migration probabilities for people registered in rural China. This is … there are fewer examples that minority ethnicity affects probability to migrate. …

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