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Should Immigrants Culturally Assimilate or Preserve Their Own Culture? Individual Beliefs and the Longevity of National Identity

Grajzl, Peter - 2017

We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally assimilate into the host society or preserve their own cultural norms. We argue that when national identity is a source of intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity...

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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration - Empirical Evidence from France

Lochmann, Alexia - 2017

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a precise rule: the training is available when the test score of an initial language exam is below a...

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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth

Felfe, Christina - 2018

Inequality of opportunity, particularly when overlaid with racial, ethnic, or cultural differences, increases the social distance between individuals, which is widely believed to limit the scope of cooperation. A central question, then, is how to bridge such divides. We study the effects of a...

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Migration Background and Educational Tracking : Is There a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke - 2010

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...

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Integrated Public Education, Fertility and Human Capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility among more affluent parents whose children...

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States — looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

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EU Enlargement, Migration and the New Constitution

Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2004

The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western … Europe. Although migration is good in principle, as it yields gains from trade and specialization for all countries involved …

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Welfare Migration: Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Good Measure of its Economics Impact on the Welfare of the Native-Born Population?

Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2004

Migration of young workers (as distinct from retirees), even when driven in by the generosity of the welfare state …, slows down the trend of increasing dependency ratio. But, even though low-skill migration improves the dependency ratio, it … estimate the fiscal burden that low-skill migration imposes on the fiscal system. However, an important message of this paper …

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The Influence of Labor Taxes on the Migration of Skilled Workers

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina Maria - CESifo - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … to see to what extent labour income taxes and social security contributions determine migration flows. We collect data on … tax variables to estimate their effect on bilateral stocks of expatriates into OECD countries and the migration of skilled …

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