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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179844
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Underrepresentation, Quotas and Quality: A Dynamic Argument for Reform
Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin - 2023
both the identity and perceived quality of their mentors (seniors). A preference for homophily results in the persistence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377412
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štĕpán; Roesel, Felix - 2021
identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582013
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266645
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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472550
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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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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
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How does it feel to be part of the minority? : impacts of perspective taking on prosocial behavior
Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
Can taking the perspective of an out-group reduce prejudice and promote prosociality? Building on insights from social psychology, we study the case of Colombian natives and Venezuelan immigrants. We conducted an online experiment in which we randomly assigned natives to either play an online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670407
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Stepan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237228
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
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