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"Cultural persistence" of health capital : evidence from European migrants
Costa-Font, Joan; Sato, Azusa - 2016
persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral …Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497628
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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022260
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Moving out of the comfort zone : how cultural norms affect attitudes toward immigration
Giesing, Yvonne; Kauder, Björn; Mergele, Lukas; … - 2024
students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490755
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Immigration, fertility, and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965875
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The indirect fiscal benefits of low-skilled immigration
Colas, Mark; Sachs, Dominik - 2020
Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We operationalize this general-equilibrium effect in the workhorse labor market model with heterogeneous workers and intensive and extensive labor supply margins. We derive a closed-form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294858
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270567
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Should immigrants culturally assimilate or preserve their own culture? : individual beliefs and the longevity of national identity
Grajzl, Peter; Eastwood, Jonathan; Dimitrova-Grajzl, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653752
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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761616
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023
. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288130