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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data …s and 1970s we find that local co-ethnic concentration affects immigrants' ethnic identity. While residential ethnic … clustering strengthens immigrants' retention of an affiliation with their origin (minority identity), it weakens identification …

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Return, Circular, and Onward Migration Decisions in a Knowledge Society

Constant, Amelie F. - 2019

This chapter provides a state-of-the-art literature review about research that aims to explain the return, repeat, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it...

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...

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Longing for Which Home: Evidence from Global Aspirations to Stay, Return or Migrate Onwards

Bekaert, Els; Constant, Amelie F.; Foubert, Killian; … - 2021

Aspirations provide the underlying dynamics of the behavior of individuals whether they are realized or not. Knowledge about the characteristics and motives of those who aspire to leave the host country is key for both host and home countries to formulate appropriate and effective policies in...

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Time-Space Dynamics of Return and Circular Migration: Theories and Evidence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2020

This chapter undertook the monumental task of providing a complete outlook about return, repeat, circular and onward migration by bringing together the perspectives of the host and the home country. In this endeavor, it reviewed and evaluated all theories about why people move, when they...

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Latinos in the Northeastern United States : Trends and Patterns

Massey, Douglas S. - 2017

This paper charts the growth and development of the Latino population of the northeastern U.S. from 1970 to 2015. The relatively small population dominated by Puerto Ricans and concentrated in New York and a few other cities has evolved into a large, diverse, and more geographically dispersed...

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship : Not Just a Matter of Personality

Caliendo, Marco - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in...

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco - 2016

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...

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