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regard to the regulation of legal status, rights, opportunities, and acquisition of citizenship. We give examples of the … incorporation but also similarities to the regulation of access to residence, rights, and citizenship. We highlight changes in this …, and, finally, we address the expected effects on wider integration of citizenship acquisition. …
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performance. Based on the eligibility rules, we find few returns of citizenship for men, but substantial returns for women … a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two …, we exploit discontinuities in the reforms' eligibility rules. Between 1991 and 1999, adolescents could obtain citizenship …
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We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical slave exports for an individual's ethnic group being associated with … contemporary distrust for strangers, and in turn opposition to citizenship laws that favor the inclusion of foreigners. We find …
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This paper explores the relationship of immigrant citizenship ascension and the effect on the naturalized citizen … for immigrant ascension to citizenship by entry class and human capital requirements for country specific examples. …
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The self-response rate is a key driver of the cost and quality of a census. The addition of a citizenship question to … the 2020 Census could affect the self-response rate. We predict the effect of the addition of a citizenship question on … self-response by comparing mail response rates in the 2010 Census, which did not have a citizenship question, and the 2010 …
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less likely to comply with civic duties such as voting and paying taxes. Exclusion erodes civic responsibilities. …
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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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This paper explores the impact of the 2007 EU enlargement on the consumption behavior of immigrant households. Using data from a unique Italian survey and a diff-in-diff approach, we find that the enlargement induced a consumption increase for immigrants from new member states. This effect...
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Several European countries have reformed their citizenship policies over the past decades. There is much to learn from … their experience of how citizenship works; for whom it works; and what rules and policies matter for integration. The … citizenship increases take-up and improves the economic, educational, political and social integration of immigrants. Other …
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Based on observational studies, conventional wisdom suggests that citizenship carries economic benefits. We leverage a … access to citizenship on several economic outcomes, including income, credit scores, access to credit, financial distress …-economic integration. However, we do find that citizenship reduces fears of deportation. Explaining our divergence from past studies, our …
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