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Immigrants' 'Ability' and Welfare as a Function of Cultural Diversity : Effect of Cultural Capital at Individual and Local Level
Tubadji, Annie - 2014
This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046650
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with … 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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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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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie - 2013
, that differences in trust levels between the two host countries increase with acculturation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086660
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775761
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870467
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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
identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction, history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316802