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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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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2007

and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to naturalize beyond the standard individual and human capital …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264991

Migration, ethnicity and economic integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...

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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

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

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic selfidentification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 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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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

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

and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a …

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F. - 2006

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...

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