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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152952
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047862
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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection,and High School Graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861188
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775761
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045036
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246024
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316802
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110867
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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and preferred destination choices. We find that individuals who intend to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942048