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Trust of second generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713189
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Assimilation through marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620951
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Terrorism and integration of muslim immigrants
Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de - 2013
We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim … immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants' perceived integration, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783672
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Muslims in France : identifying a discriminatory equilibrium
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy … to identify Muslims as such due to their lower assimilation, reveal their distaste for Muslims. -- assimilation ; Muslim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656620
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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the … marriage market prospects of non-Muslim childhood immigrants significantly and increases their participation in volunteer work …. However, our results show that while a good command of English enhances the educational attainments of Muslim childhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022420
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810057
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557358
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Bend it like Beckham : ethnic identity and integration
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153057
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Migrants, ethnicity and the welfare state
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621809
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252642