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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation
Abdulloev, Ilhom - 2014
Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139048
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2011
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie - 2013
trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086660
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
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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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants …
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Migrant Ethnic Identity : Concept and Policy Implications
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
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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Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance
Fouarge, Didier - 2019
This paper investigates the relationship between Big Five personality traits and individuals' intentions to migrate in countries that vary in their culture. Using data collected from university students in Germany, we find that extraversion and openness are positively associated with migration...
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Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Evidence from Swiss Voting Results
Brunner, Beatrice - 2014
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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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David N. - 2016
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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