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Learning from the origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
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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The safest time to fly : pandemic response in the era of Fox News
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael; Tian, Yuan - 2020
emergency declaration in the United States. Our results show that slanted media can have a harmful effect on containment efforts …
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The safest time to fly : pandemic response in the era of Fox News
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael; Tian, Yuan - 2021
emergency declaration in the United States. Our results show that slanted media can have a harmful effect on containment efforts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492337
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Media attention and choice of major : evidence from anti-doctor violence in China
Bo, Shiyu; Chen, Y. Joy; Song, Yan; Zhou, Sen - 2018 - This draft: December 11, 2018
We study the relationship between media attention and major choices by evaluating how newspaper reports on violence … above-median test scores are more responsive to media attention. Consequently, it significantly reduces the quality of …
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Social networks and (political) assimilationin the age of mass migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022
This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their … certified migrants (10.2 and 6.6 log points), reflecting a more intense screening of migrant than native workers. The … representation of migrants among licensed (but not certified or unionized) workers is 14% lower than that of natives. This implies a …
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants
Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021
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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Social networks and mental health outcomes : Chinese rural-urban migrant experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
cities can mitigate these adverse mental health effects. Using a unique longitudinal survey data of Rural-to-Urban Migration … anxiety of migrants. …
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments
Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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