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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? Evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290755
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227667
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832183
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The free movement of inactive citizens in the EU: a challenge for the european welfare state?
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2007
The EU Directive on Free Movement of 2004 extended free movement within the EU to Union citizens who are inactive and gave them access to the welfare benefits of host countries. The paper examines the extent to which these measures provoke migration to those countries with the highest levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264078
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Multigenerational Transmission of Culture
Spiro, Daniel - 2019
’s preferences. Furthermore, interaction of groups implies more extreme initial behavior but also faster integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018198
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First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-Dimensional Integration of Refugees
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425653
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štĕpán; Roesel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
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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 … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266645
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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020
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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Ethnicity and tax filing behavior
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Miao, Chizheng - 2019
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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