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full German censuses, 1970 and 1987. Utilizing the exogenous placement of immigrants during the recruitment era in the 1960 …s and 1970s we find that local co-ethnic concentration affects immigrants' ethnic identity. While residential ethnic … clustering strengthens immigrants' retention of an affiliation with their origin (minority identity), it weakens identification …
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-generation immigrants living in the United States with their corresponding annual country of ancestry’s Gender Gap Index (GGI). Because all … these immigrants (with different cultural backgrounds) have grown up under the same laws, institutions, and economic …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among … married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys. Among immigrants, better job opportunities, measured by … live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …
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2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants … deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The negative effects on immigrants are not equally distributed across … level. Immigrants whose ethnicity is mainly employed in the sectors most affected during the recession, suffered the most …
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an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage points. We find empirical support for differing earnings opportunities as a … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …
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language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … earnings of immigrants. … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability …
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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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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 …
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marriage, decrease rates of exogamous marriage to immigrants from other countries and have indeterminate effects on marriage to …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes …
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