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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...

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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially … affects the labor force participation of men and women. Women who exhibit the integrated identity are more likely to work than …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039656

The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that employment is positively associated with assimilation and integration and negatively associated with...

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...

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Migration and Stratification

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...

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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies

Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …

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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S

Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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