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Culture or context? : revisiting the role of culture in shaping economic outcomes
Adnan, Wifag - 2019
researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126171
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Does Culture Matter?
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of … development among others. -- culture ; beliefs ; preferences ; norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810107
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409050
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The role of social networks in cultural assimilation
Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2015
assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336962
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The formation of networks in the diaspora
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2016
In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering different possible interactions between immigrants and the new society in their host country....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452743
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Ethnic networks and international trade
Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002181693
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Ethnic regional networks and immigrants' earnings: a spatial autoregressive network approach
Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2021
The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the spill-over effects of migrant ethnic group economic resources and labour market outcomes. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698921
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Peer effects in networks : a survey
Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; Fortin, Bernard - 2020
We survey the recent, fast-growing literature on peer effects in networks. An important recurring theme is that the causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network itself. In the absence of correlated effects, the reflection problem is generally solved by network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167931
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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice
Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, proxied by linguistic distance, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764646
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Entrepreneurship and survival dynamics of immigrants to the US and their descendants
Georgarakos, Dimitris (contributor);  … - 2007
Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595346