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Please Call Me John : Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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Economic Assimilation of the "Third Generation" : An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective on Immigration and Integration
Zorlu, Aslan; van Gent, Wouter - 2021
-generation "migrants." Using rich register data for adult children aged 20 to 30, we provide empirical evidence on the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314984
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Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers : Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
Zorlu, Aslan - 2010
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117822
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2011
This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118537
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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 population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099722
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086660
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Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112785
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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153181