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Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
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trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and …
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A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the … consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less … assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …
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What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple game-theoretic model which shows how...
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specific to migrants' characteristics and behaviour, namely dimensions of proximity to the native population's culture and the … level of integration in the host society. Secondly, we investigate migrants' propensity for consumption of cultural and … cultural participation rates, confirming that cultural differences play a role in migrants' cultural consumption choice. …
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We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
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the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants …
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how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …
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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
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The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its … migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …
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