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how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity … and the determinants of culture (prices and incomes, broadly defined). But this is not what is done. Usually identity and …
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Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within...
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integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation …
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Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by … welfare access by migrants or further tighten migration policies. Are there politically feasible alternatives to these two … perceptions about migrants in Europe. Based on a simple model of the perceived fiscal effects of migration and on a largely …
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's religious identity (affiliation). Religious groups are described as quasi-enclaves and immigrant churches as a subset of these …
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immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … and family migrants. We find that intermarried immigrants outperformed intramarried ones in employment rates and salaries … that time period, but this difference is only significant for the subsample of family migrants. Finally, the upward …
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(and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves,(2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …
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separate literature has also examined the cultural and ethnic identity of immigrants and how these affect their economic … performance and societal integration. However, an unexplored channel connects ethnic clustering with ethnic identity formation … of co-ethnic concentration for the minority identity and at very low levels of local concentration for the majority …
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A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
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