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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we … consequence of reducing their well-being, since identity-concerned parents will constrain their daughter's choices. The model can … self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …

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The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...

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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...

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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants: evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants’ ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied: Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted...

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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...

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Migration background and educational tracking: Is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - 2010

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...

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Immigrants' Returns Intentions and Job Search Behavior When the Home Country Is Unsafe

Bassetto, Jacopo; Monteiro, Teresa Freitas - 2024

Migration is often temporary, and the intended length of stay in the host country is an important determinant of immigrants' labor market behavior, human capital investment, and socioeconomic integration. In this paper, we investigate whether safety conditions in the home country aﬀect...

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