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The urgent need for an economics of "hategoatism"
Payson, Steven - 2019
The word "scapegoat" is defined as "a person made to bear the blame for others," and similarly, "scapegoatism" refers to "the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself" (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com,...
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Violent conflict and parochial trust : lab-in-the-field and survey evidence
Werner, Katharina; Skali, Ahmed - 2023
How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through...
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The slippery slope from pluralistic to plural societies
Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2021
examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …
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How do new immigration flows affect existing immigrants? : evidence from the refugee crisis in Germany
Deole, Sumit S.; Huang, Yue - 2020
). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of immigrants' culture in estimating immigration's socio …-economic impact. Additionally, we distinguish between the labor demand and labor supply effects associated with immigration, which … enables us to reflect on the ambiguous labor market impact of immigration suggested in the existing literature. In particular …
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School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism : evidence from European countries
Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2020
This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network formation and estimating it using a sample (CILS4EU) of about 10,000 secondary school students in four countries: England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea...
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Contact vs. information : what shapes attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from an experiment in schools
Florio, Erminia - 2020
We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes … towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome … immigration in Italy and the world. On average, students develop better attitudes towards immigration (especially in the case of …
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The effect of culture on home-ownership
Marcén, Miriam; Morale, Marina - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data on first-generation immigrants who arrived in the United States under 6 years old. Following the epidemiological approach, those early-arrival immigrants grew up under the same...
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The effect of 9/11 on immigrants' ethnic identity and employment : evidence from Germany
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
A growing concern in Western countries is the fact that immigrants might adopt oppositional identities. Although identity is expected to affect the economic outcomes of immigrants, little is known about the factors that in uence the identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment...
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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
design effective post-immigration policies. …
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Crossing boundaries and time : an exploration of time allocation, emotional well-being of immigrants in the United States
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Lagravinese, Raffaele - 2023
This study investigates the emotional experiences of immigrants and native- born individuals in the United States, exploring the relationship between daily activities and feelings of happiness, stress, and meaningfulness. We analyze the entire range of daily activities and their durations,...
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