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Hometown conflict and refugees' integration efforts

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Khanna, Gaurav; Marino, Victoria; … - 2024

How does violence in origin areas affect the educational outcomes of refugees in their destinations? Using administrative panel data, we find that heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian students leads to improvements in their school outcomes in Türkiye. Turkish language and Math scores...

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The effect of conflict on refugees' return and integration : evidence from Ukraine

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Giesing, Yvonne; … - 2024

What is the causal effect of conflict on refugees' return and integration? To answer this question, we launched a panel … survey of Ukrainian refugees across Europe in June 2022 and combined it with geocoded conflict data. Most refugees plan to … integrate faster. Increased conflict intensity in the home municipality discourages return there, but not to Ukraine as a whole …

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Determinants of integration and its impact on the economic success of immigrants : a case study of the Turkish community in Berlin

Danzer, Alexander M. (contributor); Ulku, Hulya (contributor) - 2008

Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...

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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2006

the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be … willing to trade similarities in ethnicity for similarities in education when evaluating potential spouses. Using a simple …

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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794040

The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...

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The economic determinants of ethnic assimilation

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman (contributor) - 2006

which they are formed. The role of income transfer regimes tied to ethnic group membership is also considered. -- ethnicity …

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Immigrants assimilate as communities, not just as individuals

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); Leigh, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

"There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals assimilating in a largely anonymous labour market, a view that runs counter to the spirit of the equally...

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Clash of cultures : Muslims and Christians in the ethnosizing process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...

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