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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...

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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...

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The happy cultural omnivore? : exploring the relationship between cultural consumption patterns and subjective well-being

Bertacchini, Enrico; Bolognesi, Valentina; Venturini, … - 2021

This paper proposes a novel approach to explore the relationship between cultural participation and subjective well-being. While most empirical research has considered such a connection using cultural and leisure activities individually or in additive terms, drawing from the sociological...

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How economics helped shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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Caught between cultures: unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

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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Time, money, peers, and parents : some data and theories on teenage behavior

Kooreman, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey

Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022

Most teenagers spend several hours per day on social media. We provide a large-scale investigation of the relationship between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation is positive and large for girls - higher use of...

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Looks and gaming : who and why?

Chung, Andy; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Singleton, Carl; … - 2024

We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are...

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Aliyah to Israel : immigration under conditions of adversity

Neuman, Shoshana - 1999

following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24 … enriched by 879,486 immigrants, a growth rate of 19.3 percent. In 1991, 15,000 Jews were airlifted in one single day in … "Operation Solomon". What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many …

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Linguistic and economic adjustment among immigrants in Israel

Chiswick, Barry R.; Rebhun, ʿUzi; Beider, Nadia - 2016

, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …

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