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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie - 2013
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic …
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The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that employment is positively associated with assimilation and integration and negatively associated with...
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Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...
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Cultural Diversity and Plant‐Level Productivity
Trax, Michaela S. - 2012
Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and in the aggregate regional labor force where the...
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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Constant, Amelie F. - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097205
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development
Campbell, Stuart - 2019
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour, or by mediating parental access to social resources....
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Economic and Cultural Gaps Among Foreign-Born Minorities in Spain
de la Rica, Sara - 2009
This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763934
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Migrant Ethnic Identity : Concept and Policy Implications
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process … of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of … migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates for a new concept to measure the ethnic identity of migrants, models …
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