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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors - conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820685
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Media coverage of immigration and the polarization of attitudes
Schneider-Strawczynski, Sarah; Valette, Jérôme - 2023
individuals becoming more likely to report extremely positive and negative attitudes. This polarization is mainly driven by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445252
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014526023
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271138
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271143
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272279
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Ethnosizing Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
ethnicity of individuals, measured by country of origin, remains relevant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272280
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272281
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272286