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’s preferences. Furthermore, interaction of groups implies more extreme initial behavior but also faster integration. …
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We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish administrative data, focusing on two empirical examples. First, controlling for a rich set of variables, we compare deduction behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting...
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integrated economy, both relative to integration across the borders of the German state and in absolute terms. Second, this … barriers that divided Germany along natural trade routes into eastern and western parts. Third, internal integration improved …, while external integration worsened after World War I and again with the Great Depression, in part because of border changes …
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-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least …
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This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and …
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Globally, 150 million adolescents report being victims of or engaging in peer-to-peer violence in and around school. One strategy to reduce this risk is to occupy youth in after-school programs (ASP). Yet, the question remains: how does peer group composition affect the effectiveness of an ASP?...
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What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple theoretical model which shows how...
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what conditions is top-down sorting socially efficient. We illustrate when integration (i.e. mixing types so that each …
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refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social … social integration: they are less likely to be in education or employment and they earn less. We also show that favorable … attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees’ economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward …
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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 … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …
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