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This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
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This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the...
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Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...
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We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the … asset diversity and the way individual socio-economic characteristics as well as important life events affect this measure … household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States - the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity …
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-listed banks belonging to listed groups or along other board diversity dimensions. Using administrative data, we compare diversity … non-listed banks in listed groups. The law enhanced diversity of boards of listed banks, also along individual …
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across societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped by the prehistorical out …-of-Africa migration. Exploring the roots of inequality within the US population, we find supporting evidence for our hypothesis: variation … degree of diversity of their ancestral populations. This effect is sizable: a move from the lowest to the highest level of …
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Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of …
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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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associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants’ societal integration (m-Integration …) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer), good overall health (EQ-VAS) and mental health (CESD-20). It is estimated … that the patterns are gender sensitive. In addition, it is found that m-Integration applications in relation to translation …
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international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants … abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration …
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