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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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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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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001
Bengtsson, Tommy (contributor); Scott, Kirk (contributor) - 2008
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754908
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Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971 - 2000
Jaeger, David A. (contributor) - 2006
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328061
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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children
Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009
A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794040
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796343
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Citizenship, co-ethnic populations and employment probabilities of immigrants in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2009
; naturalization ; citizenship ; ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904800