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This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
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and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural …, we find that while immigrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion, this is mostly to export the host country culture …
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We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
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how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with …
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We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force ….This article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …
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We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
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migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates for a new concept to measure the ethnic identity of migrants, models … of ethnic identity, classifies migrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization …
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