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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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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level

Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...

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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010

Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …

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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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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014

We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …

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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why. We start from the "standard" view that immigration...

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From pink-collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2020

cohort of young Israeli women, we identify the persistence of two important features of the Soviet culture: the …

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The seeds of ideology : historical immigration and political preferences in the United States

Giuliano, Paola; Tabellini, Marco - 2020

We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare state, and that this had a long-lasting effect on the political ideology of US born individuals....

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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law

Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2020

Previous literature has shown that attitudes and preferences are intergenerationally transmitted from parents to their children. We contribute to this literature by analyzing whether gender role attitudes are also transmitted across cultural boundaries, i.e., from immigrants to natives. Focusing...

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