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Parental ethnic identity and child development

Campbell, Stuart; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Popli, Gurleen; … - 2019

We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour, or by mediating parental access to social resources....

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Ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018

competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries. …

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Flexible work organization and employer provided training : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018

likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide …

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Flexible workplace practices and labor productivity

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Ancestry versus ethnicity : the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States

Duncan, Brian (contributor); Trejo, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2008

Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their "ethnicity" (or Hispanic origin) and their "ancestry". We investigate whether different patterns of responses to these questions reflect varying degrees of ethnic...

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Substitution between individual and cultural capital : pre-migration labor supply, culture and US labor market outcomes among immigrant woman

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...

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Interregional contact and national identity

Bagues, Manuel F.; Roth, Christopher - 2020

We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions on beliefs, preferences and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations throughout Spain, with tailored survey data. Being randomly assigned to...

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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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