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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide : recent longitudinal evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012

fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …

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Immigrants, ethnic identities and the nation-state

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...

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Cultural diversity and plant-level productivity

Trax, Michaela; Brunow, Stephan; Südekum, Jens - 2012

Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if "cultural diversity" affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and in the aggregate regional labor force where the plant...

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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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Cultural integration : experimental evidence of changes in immigrants' preferences

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Erkal, Nisvan; Gangadharan, Lata; … - 2012

evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals of Chinese ethnicity in Australia, focusing on … policy making and institution building in multi-cultural societies. -- cultural integration ; cultural transmission …

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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation : evidence from Dutch firm-level data

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important question for firms and for governments to ask whether there are some productivity-enhancing...

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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants : 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D. (contributor); … - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Ethnosizing immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2006

-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization … well, but do not assimilate. Having some schooling is worse than no education for integration or assimilation. The … ; migrant assimilation ; migrant integration …

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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants

Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and …

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Terrorism and integration of muslim immigrants

Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de - 2013

immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants' perceived integration, as … for the existence of a negative trend in the integration of Muslims prior to the terrorist attacks. We further show that … terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …

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