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two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both strength of identity to the (ethnic) minority and to the (Swedish …
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by subsequently interacting educational attainments with ethnicity, mother tongue and city of residence support these …
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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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– even controlling for differences in ethnicity, family background and years-since-migration. Additional tests show that the …
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
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and anti-Semitic feelings towards German citizens who differ in ethnicity (Aussiedler from Eastern Europe) or in religion …. The results are not gender-driven. They are not an artifact of economic conditions triggering feelings about job priority …
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...
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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …
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