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Immigrants and demography : marriage, divorce, and fertility

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014

This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...

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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 … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

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Drivers of cultural participation of immigrants : evidence from an Italian survey

Bertacchini, Enrico; Venturini, Alessandra; Zotti, Roberto - 2019

specific to migrants' characteristics and behaviour, namely dimensions of proximity to the native population's culture and the … immigrant's cultural background and proximity with the culture of the host society still significantly explain variation in …

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International migration and the economics of language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...

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The value of earning for learning : performance bonuses in immigrant language training

Aslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2012

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...

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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 2014

Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...

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Ethnic goods and immigrant assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We …

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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....

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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … economically. However, while refugees assigned to more hostile regions converge to local culture more quickly, they do not exhibit …

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