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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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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 …

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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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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...

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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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Between Fear Mongers and Samaritans: Does Information Provision Affect Attitudes towards the Right of Asylum in Germany?

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020

We utilise information experiments embedded in a representative population survey to elicit the German public’s attitude towards the right of asylum. We randomly assign the interviewees to different groups and ‘treat’ each group with different information about the asylum-seekers that came...

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The (Option-) Value of Overstaying

Méango, Romuald; Poinas, François - 2023

The paper is structured around three main contributions. First, it takes advantage of a unique survey on Afghan asylum seekers in Germany to provide novel descriptive insights into asylum seekers' beliefs about their outcomes and the associated intention to overstay. Second, it estimates asylum...

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...

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